On Mar 23, 2014 8:30 PM, "Manuel Schneider" <manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch> wrote: > > Just my two cents on ticket prices for Wikimedia conferences: > > * I can confirm with what has been said about other, professional > conferences. Note the term "professional". > > * Having a voluntarily higher price for supportive participants is > something we could try. We could even try to distinguish between > Wikimedians (a broader definition than scholarship recipients, eg. > connected to the voting rights which already define reasonable criteria) > and "outsiders".
Maybe just add an extra field in the registration form for (optional) donations? If people want, can pay more. (what they think is worth or whatever) We do that for Wikimedia DC chapter memberships, although not sure how many people put extra donation. Katie > > My personal experience with setting prices for Wikimedia conferences: > Concerning WikiCon 2012 we were thinking it from the perspective of the > attendee. We wanted to get people who are not Wikimedians to attend as > well. So we offered day tickets and set their price according to what we > thought would be the max of what somebody who doesn't exactly know what > to expect and is just curious would be willing to pay. > In that case we came up with 5 EUR, a price level comparable to a visit > of a mid-level museum or a disco. > The price for the whole conference was then interpolated from that. > > So the question is: What is our target group and what makes sense to > them to pay? > * again, splitting between Wikimedians and non-Wikimedians came to my > mind (how does the LinuxConf.au distinguish whether one is hobbyist or > professional)? > * I agree with what has been said on volunteers not willing to have to > pay for their hobby, if they already contribute so much else, no matter > what they actually earn. > > > /Manuel > -- > Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens > Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > Wikimania-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
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