Re: [guadec-list] Registration Fees for GUADEC 2007

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:01 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:

> </blunt>
> As far as I can see, this is not an alternative, but the Foundation is
> already doing exactly this. They allow rich people who can pay for
> themselves in automatically and from all the people who apply for
> sponsorship, they select who they invite. I'd even argue it's worse
> than if they'd just invite people. I guess that's even worse than just
> inviting people, since with the current method, people get uninvited.
> </blunt>

This is ridiculous.  I'm sure the organizing committee would be ok
guaranteeing to accept sponsoring *registration fee* for anyone who
requests.  Or are you saying that they will uninvite people because they
don't sponsor everyone's travel expenses?!


> >  As one of GUADEC's sponsors, though, this all seems to say that we're
> > collectively being somehow stingy by not contributing even more to support
> > this "party". Either that, or that we need to somehow trim down the list of
> > "invitees" to the "party" match the budget we can put together solely from
> > contributions, to ensure that we don't run out of hors d'oeuvres and tonic
> > water.
> >
> I have no clue about the financial situation of GUADEC, but I don't
> think me or even 100 people paying 10 pounds or not will make a huge
> difference in the budget of the conference. In the original
> announcement it was hinted that the money was only necessary because
> you "simply cannot afford to have people register, pay nothing and
> then not turn up". [2]

So you thought your 10 bucks buying a CD makes a difference for the
artist?  Or maybe you don't bugy CDs to play them in parties? :)


> Cheers,
> Benjamin
> 
> 
> [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-sevilla/
> [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/thos/2007/05/15/0


Cheers,
-- 
behdad
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