On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Nick Burch <n...@apache.org> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2012, Mark Struberg wrote: > >> Folks, I know no single conference where the speakers have to pay for the >> conference itself. That's just ridiculous. >> > > There are quite a few out there. It's starting to look like some people > are finding the idea normal, others are shocked, depending on what other > conferences you've spoken at recently... > > > 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. >> > > <change-of-hat> > TAC won't just carte-blanche hand out plane tickets to all speakers, > sorry. Typical TAC recipients are students, people out of work, people just > starting out in work, people who work in very low paid sectors etc. > There is a strict judging process, and giving lots of preference to > speakers, above and beyond others, risks problems with our charitable > status. Some speakers will get help, certainly, and many have been helped > out in the past, but by no means can TAC fund them all.... > </change-of-hat> > > Unless someone is able to find a hefty chunk of sponsorship down the back > of their company sofa, the budget as it currently stands doesn't let us > both comp speakers, and offer them free hotel accomodation. > > So, we come back to the earlier question once more. For those people who > won't be fully funded by their company no matter what, which is more > important to you being able to come? > * Would it be better for you two pay a couple of hundred euros towards > your ticket (say, something like half price), and get accomodation? > * Or would it be better if your ticket was completely free, but you > have to arrange and pay for your own accomodation? >
+1 Ticket free/pay for accomodation. Risky to mix the two, IMHO. > > We've had a few people already vote for the latter, but is that the case > for everyone? Which is the one we should be concentrating on trying to make > happen? > > Thanks > Nick >
