SWC is non-profit itself and the fees asked were, in the past, made as donations. Why not letting everybody just paying the regular fees while making feel not non-profit organization they should give SWC a donation, hoping it will be commensurate to the size of the profitable organization hosting the workshop. If one is meager with us, we're know where to stand with this one next time he's asking for a workshop.
Denis *_____________________________________________Denis *Haine +1-514-572-7174 2015-03-05 9:48 GMT-05:00 C. Titus Brown <[email protected]>: > This is not generally true of faculty in the US, as far as I know - at > least > I've never heard of it. :) There are various rules in place to keep me > from > selling credits without my university's cut, but I can consult on whatever > I want up to some limit of # of hours consonant with my day job. > > best, > --titus > > On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 02:32:00PM +0100, Olav Vahtras wrote: > > Just adding that solutions that have been suggested here, to just connect > > interested instructors with companies and to let them negotiate, are out > of > > bounds for me. As a university employee I am not allowed to teach > elsewhere > > for personal gain, while participating at workshops as an invited > > instructor hosted by other universities can be considered part of my job > > description. My guess is that most instructors here are in the academia > and > > have similar rules. > > > > /Olav > > > > On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 1:38 PM, Raniere Silva <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > - I favour the "for-profits pay/not-for-profits don't pay", > single-price > > > camp. > > > > > > The "not-for-profits don't pay" can be dangerous to our sustainability > > > outside US. Here in Brazil almost 100% of the universities that can be > > > interested in our workshops are 100% public funding and with > > > not-for-profit status. > > > Going with "not-for-profits don't pay" will mean that we will need to > find > > > another way to pay administration hours for workshops in Brazil. > > > For the Brazilian case, we could try get national support for > > > administration > > > cost of all workshops in Brazil in the same way that Brazilian Federal > > > Government has a national subscription to many non-open access > journals. > > > > > > Raniere > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Discuss mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org > > -- > C. Titus Brown, [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org >
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