Hi, Koen Martens wrote: > Changing the registration levels is really not an option anymore. If we > keep second guessing discussions we concluded months ago, we'll never > move forward. It's EUR 0, EUR 100, EUR 250.
Agreed. > The motivation to pay > EUR 100 or EUR 250 is that you can miss it or get someone to pay it for > you, and that you want to do this to help make the conference possible > and help people who cannot afford it to be there, etc.. Not some > materialistic trinket. The trinket is a bonus. No-one likes to think that they're paying more for the same thing - you need some kind of value-proposition for people to pay €100 or €250 - "helping GNOME" may be enough, and it may not. I have my doubts. Anyway - this discussion comes up every year when registration opens, please make sure that the €0 option is an exception, and not the rule. >>> These are just ideas, but the core principle is that if you're coming to >>> the conference, you shouldn't get something for nothing - we should make >>> an effort to have some kind of value proposition for attendees to >>> encourage the higher levels where they're appropriate. > > One last note, we want to avoid that people think of it as a 'two class > society' or something as such: you pay nothing, you get in. You pay 250, > you get pampered and VIP'ed. Even though maybe the non-payer has contributed > 30.000 lines of code, and the payer none. I'm OK with a two-class society where people who pay more get a little more and people who pay nothing get a little less. Events cost money, and we have to pay for them somehow. I don't want to encourage people to think of the code they write or time they spend as payment for stuff they get off the foundation. This would be a Very Bad Thing. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
