Folks, I know no single conference where the speakers have to pay for the conference itself. That's just ridiculous.
The ride and hotel could be handled via the travel-help as we don't have the budget of other big conferences - but tickets must be included. LieGrue strub ----- Original Message ----- > From: Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> > To: apachecon-discuss@apache.org > Cc: Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com>; Nick Burch <n...@apache.org> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 9:12 PM > Subject: Re: apachecon eu speaker subsidies > > On 7/30/12 11:49 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >> On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom wrote: >> >>> On 7/30/12 11:26 AM, Nick Burch wrote: >>>> On 27/07/12 13:04, Tim Williams wrote: >>>>> What are the speaker subsidies for ApacheCon EU? I assume the > show >>>>> ticket is covered. Any hotel or travel? >>>> >>>> We may be able to extend that a bit further, depending on how the > final costs end up coming in at for a few things we're still waiting on. If > we do have some budget spare, what would people rather: >>>> * Free tickets for all speakers? >>> +1. Honestly, I think not providing free conference tickets for all > speakers is a little weak. This should not include any training sessions of > course. >> >> The intention is to make the conference more accessible to those who > don't get any support at all. Even OSCON doesn't give speakers a free > ride (each talk attracts some travel support and one hotel night). PyCon and > DjangoCon give no speaker support at all, other than to guarantee them the > Early > Bird rate. > > No, not asking for a free ride. But I can't think of a conference I've > spoken at (including OSCON), where I had to pay the conference registration > fee. > Not providing meals for speakers is ok IMO (but, don't count me as a vote, > odds are I will unfortunately not be able to attend AC EU). > > Cheers, > > -- Leif >
