On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:01 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote: > </blunt> > As far as I can see, this is not an alternative, but the Foundation is > already doing exactly this. They allow rich people who can pay for > themselves in automatically and from all the people who apply for > sponsorship, they select who they invite. I'd even argue it's worse > than if they'd just invite people. I guess that's even worse than just > inviting people, since with the current method, people get uninvited. > </blunt>
This is ridiculous. I'm sure the organizing committee would be ok guaranteeing to accept sponsoring *registration fee* for anyone who requests. Or are you saying that they will uninvite people because they don't sponsor everyone's travel expenses?! > > As one of GUADEC's sponsors, though, this all seems to say that we're > > collectively being somehow stingy by not contributing even more to support > > this "party". Either that, or that we need to somehow trim down the list of > > "invitees" to the "party" match the budget we can put together solely from > > contributions, to ensure that we don't run out of hors d'oeuvres and tonic > > water. > > > I have no clue about the financial situation of GUADEC, but I don't > think me or even 100 people paying 10 pounds or not will make a huge > difference in the budget of the conference. In the original > announcement it was hinted that the money was only necessary because > you "simply cannot afford to have people register, pay nothing and > then not turn up". [2] So you thought your 10 bucks buying a CD makes a difference for the artist? Or maybe you don't bugy CDs to play them in parties? :) > Cheers, > Benjamin > > > [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-sevilla/ > [2] http://blogs.gnome.org/view/thos/2007/05/15/0 Cheers, -- behdad http://behdad.org/ "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
