Hi,
If the reason for adding some fees was to avoid having locals attending,
there's something going wrong... 80% of attendees are local people. And
that's why we're moving from countries to countries. In India, IIRC,
there were "all" students from the local librarian school. And that was
*great*.
The audience of the KohaCon usually consist in 20-30 "usual attendees",
that come every year, it (almost) doesn't depend on where it takes
place, some "close countries" people, that take profit of a "short"
trip, a few coming from a long distance, and all others are local !
+ : the 1st part of the KohaCon is usually dedicated to "discover what
Koha can do for you", so it's made for local !
Le 04/11/2016 à 07:53, Mirko Tietgen a écrit :
Hi,
from the IRC meeting I understand the fee and the registration is
there to avoid having locals attend the conference. Is that correct?
A very important point of Kohacon as I understand it is to give
locals a chance to participate in something they could otherwise
not be part of. Free of charge.
We switch the location every year and have rules to avoid it going
back and forth between Europe and the USA most of the time. Rules
that lead to the Philippines winning the bid by default, because a
European location was automatically ruled out this time.
As I understand, we do that so there is a small chance for people
to attend a Kohacon even if they can't travel to distant places.
I'd like people in the Philippines to have that chance next year.
I would like some clarification on this please.
-- Mirko
Manny Tamayao schrieb am 03.11.2016
Dear Paul and to our fellow Koha Community,
Forgive us for the modification.
Yes, to your surprise we will have a registration fee ($100)
for KohaCon2017. We are doing our best to make it registration
free.
We are talking to the stakeholders of the venue and looking for
other sponsors to help us.
Again, we hope that you will understand us and everyone will
register online https://goo.gl/forms/BSZz8NT46u4pBqT23.
Salamat,
Manny
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Ø Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 17:30:07 +0100
Ø From: Paul Poulain <[email protected]>
Ø To: [email protected]
Ø Subject: Re: [Koha] KohaCon 2017 Online Registration Form
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Ø Hello Manny,
Ø I'm a little bit surprised, with the reg fee as
Ø https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon17_Proposals
says:
Ø "proposed cost: no registration fee".
Ø Le 30/10/2016 à 16:20, Manny Tamayao a écrit :
Ø Good day Koha community,
Ø >
Ø Here's the link to our KohaCon 2017 online registration
form:
Ø https://goo.gl/forms/BSZz8NT46u4pBqT23. We will waive the
registration fee
Ø of the first 100 participants who will register early.
Ø >
Ø Kindly help us to disseminate this information.
Ø >
Ø Salamat,
Ø Manny
Ø >
Ø >
Ø >
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Ø BibLibre, Services en logiciels libres pour les
bibliothèques
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