Re: [guadec-list] Terms and conditions for registration
Philip Van Hoof wrote: That's all I'm saying, is that when it comes to the financial outlay security of the conference, I think there should be a registration fee, which should be waived generously. But the default option should definitely be pay the fee. No, the foundation is supposed to attract sponsors for the purpose of paying for that. If it fails at this, it fails at its purpose. And that means we have to start replacing the people that run it, instead of starting to ask registration fees at a conference that always worked fine the way it worked in the past. I can run a conference with free entrance for 300 or 400 people, no problem. 500 or 600, not so much. Organisational effort and costs go up exponentially as the size of a conference increases, which is why OSCON costs $750 to attend, in spite of being well sponsored. Anyway - in the past, GUADEC has had a registration fee - it's been €30, £30, and €50. Last year, there wasn't one, but there were no free conference Tees either. So if you're saying that GUADEC should work the way it has in the past, I answer Yes, absolutely, with a registration fee. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Talk Schedule
Hi, Christophe Fergeau wrote: Emmanuele suggested an alternate schedule which I like too, but which gives us less slots: I like this too. 9.30-10.30 first keynote 10.30-11.00 break (people can talk, have a coffee, ...) 11.00-11.45 talk slot 11.45-12.30 talk slot 12.30-13.30 lunch break (can also be 12.30-14.00) 13.30-14.30 keynote 14.30-15.15 talk slot 15.15-16.00 talk slot 16.00-16.45 talk slot 16.45-17.30 talk slot If we can get 15 minutes more from somewhere, we can have 1 more slot in the afternoon. The answer seems simple: 40 minute keynotes. If you can have one one-hour plenary for lightning talks as well (in addition to keynotes, but maybe if we have trouble finding keynotes we can use lightning talks as one) that would be great! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
Re: [guadec-list] Terms and conditions for registration
Hi, El vie, 09-04-2010 a las 14:17 +0200, Dave Neary escribió: Anyway - this discussion comes up every year when registration opens, please make sure that the €0 option is an exception, and not the rule. This line is particularly harsh to my third world wallet situation, I'd rather say please make sure that the €0 option is available and that donations for random fees are still encouraged to everyone. :) 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. The big majority does GNOME stuff because they enjoy it or because they are payed for it, saying that we might have friends and colleagues working and sharing time with us only because they might get something out of it is a bit rude and far from reality. It's not our job to police how honest is people when they sign up, or ask everyone for explanations when they are working for a GNOME company but they sign up as 0 €. Take my case: I work for a GNOME company and I'll sign up for 0 € because I'm pragmatically and statistically poor. I use all my earned money to pay for tuition fees at university and when GUADEC comes to pay for my not-so-cheap visa/s and taxes. I don't think my sponsorship is a payment and I don't think I'm cheating GNOME or GUADEC organizers. I'm sure others are in the same situation, no matter how 20+ they are or for whom they work. ___ guadec-list mailing list guadec-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
