On Tue, 2017-01-17 at 18:43 +0000, Sam Thursfield wrote: > These minutes also available at: > https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Meetings/20170116 > > Core team meeting 2017-01-16, at https://meet.jit.si/guadec2017 > > [...] > === Keynotes === > > We need to start contacting potential keynote speakers. > > What are the goals with having keynote speakers? > > * Bring different perspectives to the community > * Attract sponsors and attendees by having big names giving talks, > e.g. > Richard Stallman's keynote in 2009 > * Special cases for "must see" talks that, were they scheduled > normally, would leave someone else on the other track talking to > an > empty room > > We pay travel and accommodation costs for keynote speakers, but not > clear if we would pay speaking fees. > [...]
As far I know, we have never paid speaking fees. Kat may know better for recent years. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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