On 17.04.2014 14:04, John Pinner wrote: > Filip, > > On 17 April 2014 12:39, Filip Kłębczyk <fklebc...@gmail.com> wrote: >> W dniu 17.04.2014 10:55, carina.ha...@dlr.de pisze: >> > <snips> > >> I see financial aid as a similar method (to make attendees more diverse in >> terms of their wealth status or "geographical penalty"). But I think the >> better solution is to just work on lowering costs of the event (I think the >> biggest ones are catering and venue rent cost). That would result: >> 1. Reducing per attendee cost -> allows lower price of tickets >> 2. Lower price of tickets -> event more accessible to people regardless of >> wealth status >> 3. Lower price of tickets -> lower costs of financial aid per person >> 4. lower costs of financial aid per person -> more people that could receive >> financial aid or improving other areas of conference >> >> It's really simple logic. > > For once, Filip, I agree with you! Huzzah!
The EPS board agrees on this as well. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 - July 21th-27th in Berlin EuroPython mailing list EuroPython@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython
