Austin writes:
I didn't say that was the *only* role of the Foundation. Florence is misremembering my words here. If I had said what Florence thinks I said, I would fully disagree with it as well.
Although it may not be what you meant, I certainly construed "The Foundation is only paying for it" in the same way Florence did.
Properly I should have said "The Foundation is only facilitating it, which of course entails the spending of money, but which doesn't mean we're the conference organizers."
--Mike