On 07/03/2016 12:35 AM, Garreau, Alexandre wrote: > On 2016-07-02 at 21:32, Christian Grothoff wrote: >> 1) registration deadline has not passed, > > Ok, then just to answer quickly (I write quickly, because dvorak) before > I check my bank account (which has a slow proprietary interface and > doesn’t work with firefox, which requires to run another chrooted > browser through tor, which requires time): > >> 2) you can ask for the refund and effectively pay EUR 0 > > The refund is AFK, while my problem is my bank doesn’t allow me to have > too few money (5€ min I guess) on my account, so I need to be refund > now, but then it wouldn’t be anymore a real guarantee. > > Although I’m not 100% sure (I’d say ~60%) that I will be able to attend, > I need my friend (who said he will ask friends to host me) to answer.
Then why don't you just wait with the registration? You can register until 2 weeks before the event. So there is no rush. >> 3) if you can show that you bought tickets, you can >> use the non-EU option and still have food > > I will probably minimize my travel costs by using BlaBlaCar (I don’t see > yet rides for Rennes, because it’s too far in time for now) and having > my driver cancel the transaction using the proprietary software > application/web site just before the ride, so we can keep the > transaction relatively anonymous while not paying blablacar taxation > (mandatory for national travels: ironically having GHM in its own > country is able to make travel more expensive and less anonymous): which > at the same time means paying for a centralized proprietary SaaSS > (yuck!) and paying french TVA (which makes poor physical persons pay the > same proportion as rich moral persons, thus being too high for > not-rich-enough individuals while often being too low for companies). > > Moreover afaik: > 1) GNU Taler is not close to be ready (correct me if I’m wrong), and I > doubt to quickly/easily find any French bank letting me use it > (user tracking means power/money, I’m not sure most French banks > will accept to loose power); > 2) GNUnet can’t replace blablacar yet at a large scale and > sybil-resisting at the same time, while being user-friendly. > > Thus I will not have anything equivalent to a “bought ticket”… I see. Then how about you just let me know 2 weeks before the conference whether you'll be there, and we'll let the other requirements slide in your special case... >> We don't want anyone to starve or be unable to participate, we just >> don't want to buy 100 meals for 50 participants like in 2014... > > I understand, while I still don’t understand why was an —expensive— > catering the only way to eat collectively… But I can imagine why in > mostly-universitarian/research milieu people are more used to have other > paid people preparing food for them. But since I’m still willing to come > I try to adapt… Nope, it's because we know that quite a few people can afford EUR 150, and we wanted to use that as a way to get a subsidy for those who could NOT afford the meals otherwise. > The two solutions I see there are either I come with my own food (as I > said), either I pay proportionally to “our” guessed probability (I don’t > know if we take my 65%±10%, or your guess, or a mean of both, or some > other function) of my venue, if it is less than what I can pay, or > sending you my RIB/cheque, but that last option might probably cost you > too much time compared to the average money it saves (I don’t know > what’s the average researcher income, so I don’t know how worth is your > time). Nah, don't worry about it.
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