<div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Bart van den Eijnden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl" target="_blank">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I think Johan pointed out, and I agree with his assessment, that government organisations normally cannot sponsor events. They can however pay higher fees for their employees to enter a conference.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't think this is always the case. For this reason I appreciate Maria's effort to keep the fee low. If regular sponsor program is a problem, then we could think other ways to give gov org the possibility to contribute. <br><br></div><div>My 2c based on personal experience.<br><br></div><div>cheers,<br></div><div>Madi<br></div><div><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><div>On 10 Dec 2014, at 08:19, Maria Antonia Brovelli <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div style="font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Dear Johan</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">excellent point. But let me think a bit more how to exploit your suggestion: besides the "normal" registration we have also the sponsorship package (<a href="http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/#sponsors" target="_blank">http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/#sponsors</a>) . Probably this should be better highlighted also in the registration paragraph. And sponsors attendees should have also a special badge, with special color, corresponding to their generous offer. Does it make sense? </div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Thanks a lot!</div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><span>Maria</span><br></div><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><br></div><div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;margin:0px"><br><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"><span style="background-color:rgb(204,153,255)"><font><b><br><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">----------------------------------------------------<br></span></b></font></span></font>Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br><div><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3">Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>Politecnico di Milano</font></div><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"><span style="background-color:rgb(204,153,255)"><font><b><br>FOSS4G ASIA - Don't miss it!<br></b></font></span></font><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"><a href="http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/" target="_blank">http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/</a><span> </span><br></font><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font size="3"><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"> </font></font></p><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"></font><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"><span><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span>ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications";</span><span><span> </span></span><span>OSGeo;<span> </span></span><span>ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge;<span> </span></span><span>SIFET<span> </span><br></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"> </p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span>Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITAL<font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif">Y</font>)</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span>Tel. <a href="tel:%2B39-031-3327336" value="+390313327336" target="_blank">+39-031-3327336</a> - Mob.</span><span><span> </span><a href="tel:%2B39-328-0023867" value="+393280023867" target="_blank">+39-328-0023867</a> -<span> </span></span><span>fax.<span> </span><font><a href="tel:%2B39-031-3327321" value="+390313327321" target="_blank">+39-031-3327321</a></font></span></div><font></font><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span>e-mail1: <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank"></a><font color="333333"><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"><a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></font></font></span></div><font></font><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><span><a>e-mail2</a>:</span><span><span> </span><font color="333333"><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif"><a href="mailto:prorettrice@como.polimi.it" target="_blank">prorettrice@como.polimi.it</a></font></font></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br><br></div></span></font><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font face="'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif" size="3"> </font></p></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33)"><hr style="display:inline-block;width:1055px"><div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Da:</b><span> </span>Johan Van de Wauw <<a href="mailto:johan.vandewauw@gmail.com" target="_blank">johan.vandewauw@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Inviato:</b><span> </span>martedì 9 dicembre 2014 20.23<br><b>A:</b><span> </span>Maria Antonia Brovelli<br><b>Cc:</b><span> </span>foss4g-europe;<span> </span><a href="mailto:conference-europe-private@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">conference-europe-private@lists.osgeo.org</a>; Jeff McKenna; Stefano Campus<br><b>Oggetto:</b><span> </span>Re: [Conference-europe] Registration fee</font><div> </div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Maria,<br><br>Thanks for keeping the costs down - it helps to be an inclusive community!<br></div><br></div><div>On the other hand, conferences like this are perhaps one of the few ways commercial and governement entities can sponsor Osgeo easily. They often don't mind paying a fee for a conference and workshops whereas sponsoring is going through entirely different departments. I guess it is too late now, but for the future we could perhaps consider having two prices: a standard price and a 'starving hacker' price (better name suggestions welcome). The latter could be for students, charter members and others who apply.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Anyway, looking forward to the conference!<br></div>Johan<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Polimi<span> </span><span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span><span> </span>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div><div>Dear All</div><div>Marco and I have made some simulations about possible registration fees. The idea is to keep them as lower as possible. We will provide the basic facilities ( rooms, staff for registration, technical staff for the computer rooms, ...) and then considering how many people will register and/or how many sponsors we'll have we will add the extras (t-shirts, coffee breaks, ice-breaker party, lunches, and so on). USB keys will kindly offered by GFOSS, the Italian association of Free and Open Source GIS (thanks!).</div><div><br></div><div>Here the fees we need at least to start the conference:</div><div><br></div><div>100 euro for normal registration and 50 euro for students before 30th April 2015 (Early Bird)</div><div><br></div><div>200 euro for normal registration and 100 for students after 30th April 2015</div><div><br></div><div>300 euro on site registration.</div><div><br></div><div>Workshops: </div><div><br></div><div>20 euro for each workshop</div><div><br></div><div>It seems me reasonable costs. I hope to have many people to be able to offer more and more.</div><div><br></div><div>In few days Nick will prepare also this page and then, at least, the first step is done!</div><div>Thanks to everybody!</div><div><br></div><div>Maria</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><span><font><b>----------------------------------------------------</b></font></span><div><span>Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br>Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>Politecnico di Milano</span></div></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><span><br></span></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><span><br></span></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><b>FOSS4G EUROPE - Don't miss it! </b><a href="http://europe.foss4g.org/2015" style="font-size:13pt;font-weight:bold" target="_blank"><font>Home</font></a></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><div><div style="padding:30px 30px 40px"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:578px;vertical-align:top"><div style="padding-bottom:10px"><span><br></span></div><div style="padding-left:11px;padding-right:5px;margin-top:14px"><table cols="2" rows="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td rowspan="2"><a href="https://plus.google.com/_/notifications/emlink?emr=03450634040182435548&emid=COD1q67m-cECFQ_DjAodSl8AJA&path=%2F115663172974992941672%2Fposts%2F3zd7VWkEKDK&dt=1415957935909&ub=49" target="_blank"><font><img alt="immagine non visualizzata" src="http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/assets/img/logo.png" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;display:block;border:0px none;max-width:220px;max-height:220px"></font></a></td><td><table cols="1" rows="2" width="240"><tbody><tr><td><span><br></span></td></tr><tr><td><span><br></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><span><font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"> </p><font><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET <br></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"> </p><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a>Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO</a> (ITALY)</div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">Tel. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327336" target="_blank">+39-031-3327336</a> - Mob. <a href="tel:+39-328-0023867" target="_blank">+39-328-0023867</a> - fax. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327321" target="_blank">+39-031-3327321</a></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">e-mail1: <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a>e-mail2</a>: <a href="mailto:prorettrice@como.polimi.it" target="_blank">prorettrice@como.polimi.it</a></div></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><font> </font></p></font></span></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>Conference-Europe mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference-Europe@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Conference-Europe@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>Conference-Europe mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Conference-Europe@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">Conference-Europe@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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