Re: [guadec-list] Registration fees

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 12:28 +0100, Quim Gil wrote:
> * Registration for the Warm Up weekend only: free to everybody.

Sounds great.

> * Registration for the whole week:
> 
> 	- Students & hobbyists: 30â?¬
> 	- Professionals (see below): 150â?¬
> 	- Staff & volunteers: free
> 	- Speakers: free
> 	- Press: free

Cool.

> Professionals will be listed in a Professional Participants table to be
> included in the printed program and the website, where they will be able
> to put their company name, contact details and one sentence description.
> Companies bringing 3 or more participants will have a logo in this list.
> The list will be sorted by companies, being at the top those bringing
> more professionals.

I like that too - gives people registering as a company a nice
investment in return for relatively cheap program space.

> * Applicable discounts in order to promote group attendance:
> 
> 	- GNOME Foundation members registering as students/hobbyists get a 100%
> discount: free registration.

Sounds good - an incentive to be a foundation member.

> 	- GNOME Foundation members registering as professionals get a 50%
> discount: 75â?¬.

Ditto.

> 	- Advisory board companies get 5 free registrations and pay 100â?¬ for
> each extra participant they bring.

Nice, I like this too - despite ad board companies generally having
money to fund registrations like these, it's a nice touch I think.

> 	- Community partners bringing 5 people or more get 1 free registration
> and pay 20â?¬ for each extra participant they bring in a single group
> reservation.

Bonus! :)


I think this is fair, good, and seems like it could generate some money
to at least help fund a successful conference, even though it may not
put that much money in the Foundation's back pocket. Feels like we
should wait a couple of days for comments, send it to the board for a
blessing and get it published.

Good work.


Glynn