On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Nóirín Plunkett <noi...@apache.org> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Marcel Offermans > <marcel.offerm...@luminis.nl> wrote: >> On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: >>>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >>>>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Can you give us a ballpark for what you expect committer & speaker >>>>>> tickets to cost, or what the options look like? >>>>>> >>>>> Sorry, we just haven't got that far down the road yet. >>>> >>>> No worries. It's just a bit hard to have a reasonable discussion >>>> without that :-) >>>> >>>> FWIW, I was surprised at the corporate level tickets: especially when >>>> there's an individual level, I would have thought the corporate could >>>> go up a little higher. If a measured increase in that allowed us to >>>> have free speaker tickets/sub-$300-committer-tickets, I would be >>>> strongly in favour. >>> >>> I'm sure you would, but corporations have budgets too, you know. >> >> The "problem" I have with the distinction between individuals and >> corporations is that Apache has always been all about individuals. Companies >> cannot even join. Therefore I think it would be strange to suddenly make >> such a distinction for ACNA and I'm curious what others think about this. >> > > I understand your difficulty with the language, but I think the > concept is sound. At the current levels, I can't see anyone coming to > the conference without *some* business footing the bill (even if it's > a sole contractor who can write it off as a business expense.) > > I hope that the committer tickets and speaker situation will allow > some people to come without it being a business expense, but if not, > it will still be an interesting experiment.
I like Bertrand's way of wording it, and I definitely agree with the concept. In fact I see it as a level in between the normal ticket price and applying for help with TAC (which I assume we will still have for ACNA). Greetings, Marcel
