Koen:
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.
There should be no concern of this. People who have this perception may just need to be reminded of the facts. Giving people extra swag, or a dinner or other amenities in *exchange*, or as an *incentive*, to giving a donation or paying a higher entrance fee in no way creates a class structure or gives people with t-shirts power over those who do not have them. If anything, such swag is a symbol of a person or organization's generosity. A $10 tshirt or a $20 dinner is a small gift in exchange for an individual who donates $100 or for an employee of a company who pays each of their employees tens (if not hundreds) of thousands of dollars/euros/etc. to work on GNOME and then pays a $250 GUADEC entrance fee per employee on top of that. As Dave says, events cost money and people should understand that doing things like giving gifts in exchange for donations helps to pay to make the event happen. Those people who donate lines of code who do not donate money are rewarded in other ways, such as with recognition, honor, and prestige within the community (and maybe even job offers or opportunities). We could also consider giving a separate t-shirt to significant GNOME volunteers regardless of whether they donate or not, as a separate reward if we want to provide such people with more recognition. Brian _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list