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<div dir="auto">I repeat Adam's sentiment. Certainly for panelists (why would I want to hear a discussion from someone not making n effort to hear the community throughout?).
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Jul. 2018 9:07 pm, John Bryant <johnwbryant@gmail.com> wrote:<br type="attribution">
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<div dir="ltr">Good point. I agree this is 'for the community, by the community' and we should aim in that direction.
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<div>But recall that we did have an email discussion about non-attending speakers (<a href="http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Conference-Presenters-and-their-Attendance-td5369372.html">email thread: <i>Conference Presenters and their Attendance,
</i>27 June</a>), where this was suggested as a way to mitigate concerns around speakers not getting a discount:
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<div><i style="font-size:small; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“We are aiming for an engaging and participatory conference, with minimal distinction between presenters and attendees. While we really appreciate all our presenters and would love to provide
them with a free ticket, we have opted instead to try and keep registration prices low and are asking presenters to purchase a registration. If that is not possible for a presenter, they may attend free of charge for the session they are presenting in, and
the break immediately afterwards.”</i> <br>
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<div>I very much agree that the ideal is to have speakers attend, and for attendees to speak. But for those that can't/won't, we've made this accommodation. I'm supposing that this will apply to a very small number of people, in any case.</div>
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<div>So the question at hand is - do we apply this principle to a panel chair? Or do we aim for a higher standard for this level of participation?</div>
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