On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Moray Allan <[email protected]> wrote: > We should create a cancellation policy. This might just be that > DebConf registration fees are non-refundable.
"Cancellation is fully refundable, but will be automatically transferred into a voluntarily donation to the DebConf organization budget." I get more and more the impression, that DebConf Attendees, especially professionl/corporate ones, have more rights than anybody of the people - (local)team - investing half their lifetime to make the meeting possible... And in this formulation is maybe the problem/the difference. DebConf is - from my feeling and understanding of it - *not* a conference in the sense of a professional conference of any product developed and/or supported or driven by a company. It is a meeting for the volunteer developers and contributors that make Debian possible, organized by the same(or nearly) people in the same volunteer fashion, to keep budget low and that way allow also people who otherwise cannot afford it to join the meeting. It should be kept like that, IMHO. Anybody who's joining the meeting for commercial/professional purposes is very much invited to do so, can even come without a fee when not using food and accomodation services(or do I get that wrong?), but has to accept that organization of all the procedures is made by volunteers and might therefore lack some of the features of superprofessional and commercial conferences(which cost easily about three times as much for a third of the timespan, without accomodation) and has to prepare at own budget and initiative if such eventual limitations don't fit the needs. IMHO that also applies for refunds.The fee is so ridiculously low, anybody who might think over not to join, and being a halfway decent professional, making money with Debian related things, should easily be able to pay it as a donation in that rare case. oh, did i get into a rage?! Sweet :) Henning _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
