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Jacob Hallén wrote: > > In the Call for Participation that was the basis for the selection of > a new site for Europython, there was a requirement for the cost of > attendance. It turns out that the promised figures from the Berlin > team can't be met and that cost of attendance will take a serious > jump, compared to Florence. > > This is a serious problem for the EPS, because our explicit goal is > to arrange a really affordable conference. We are now looking at > conference fees that are 5 times higher than the ones for Göteborg > and it is starting to hurt. Worries about getting enough participants > and getting a reasonable mix of people has gotten the EPS board more > involved in pricing issues than they would like to be. This is not > only a concern for the conference this year, but for future > conferences. A large number of the attendees have come to EuroPython > for many years. If they are scared off by the price this year, they > are less likely to come back in the future. > With respect but this is FUD. The standard ticket price for EP 2013 were for Student/Individual/Business: 330 ? / 500 ? / 620 ? The standard EP 2014 rates are for Student/Individual/Business: 200 ? / 400 ? / 600 ? Keep in mind that all EP 2014 tickets are all-inclusive (social event, catering during the sprints etc.) Andreas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQGUBAEBAgAGBQJS6/PIAAoJEADcfz7u4AZjLcELwM0a9Fe4fLkA+mULWdLfKvP9 HHHLVH99/hs/Pe4ZHAmcUF2rc6T3lyLdAC/XK3EzTl+ppEGdbXlab+oPrN6VfjHv GnUVvt7TKYfCI4cw9FkgqF1wXrqdcRVT0MXu1fecKUxKst+zQ54XaI+wY8MGhDww dC1KA5YTYZODSO3l+WFxpMblxSTeyegutSaPV7XdoxxSq5bhLhnEEj6Ev9uAxql9 Dg87vOpTWe6DU/g/0A3tsaJCduwvOVwYyHBPBPuOYts7zYrVv0QYDdNXi7Jw8Gl4 HVFd2Xb4IBPWYpeUmL1QeFj+o652aE0kIpNAIxHVi856HhyCKwBGqzpqRo/5YOcI C9K6kg6kacINgiwsNSulm2sa0JLM/AsiWMd5ZFgqnaJAi3mpRcaN+dZ00zMPuvax Bhmv3ea1FJubFfu9XQWYJug4R7yEs8zwd9IDikSaQb94v68rDqZ+61SZ2W+Mk+eQ V+P0egepnsnqRp9dnuRAFN9J7gySQmA= =yuc7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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