On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 5:37 PM, Margarita Manterola <[email protected]> wrote:
> fee... This is a hard exercise, we need to balance how much people are > willing to pay with how much we would like to receive. I propose we > lower the numbers a little, encouraging people to pay. If we trust people to do the right thing, we could simply offer ranges of pay-what-you-want. > * Corporate: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + EUR 400 > * Professional: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + EUR 150 What about * Corporate: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + EUR 400-infinity * Professional: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + € 100-399 If someone has a budget of X per year and they want to spend it all on us, we should offer a way for them to do that. We need to choose lower limits that ensure no one games the system, of course. > * Self-paid: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) > * Semi-sponsored: EUR 150 > * Sponsored: EUR 0 * Self-reliant * Supported * Sponsored Those are a bit loaded, but they are honest. > I'd like to make self-paid the default when signing up, and have > information to attendees about the categories with a message > encouraging those who can pay to pay (something along the lines of: > "There's a limit to the amount of attendees that we can sponsor, > paying for your stay if you can afford it means other in need may get > to come"). The Linux Foundation also charges a no-show fee for their events; is this something we want to pursue to prevent "safety" reservations which are then forfeited? > Apart from this, I'd like to give some kind of recognition to anybody > that helps pay for DebConf. Some token of appreciation according to > the amount they gave. For semi-sponsred or self-paid it could be a > debian sticker with a value of 1 or 2 EUR. For prof and corp, it > could be something with a value of 5 EUR or so (a mug maybe?), plus > having their name and their company names in a webpage in the > website... I think the name-on-website may be overdoing things, but else, I like it. O'Reilly has a deal where FOSDEM donors of €50 or over get a free book. Maybe we could find something like that? There are a few Debian books. > What do you all think about this? I think it's great that you and Maxy are doing a general push-and-shove in all directions, thanks a lot for that! Richard _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
