[FOSS4G2016] admission fee for presenters, workshoppers trainers etc.

[Guido Stein]

The 2017 LOC is working on case by case needs based discounts, but nothing
across the board at this point. Most conferences I have attended did not
offer speakers free admission or discounts, but in my LOC we are discussing
needs based discount/scholarship in order to attract a diverse group of
speakers.

That said, early bird discounting is something we are also focusing on.

Hope this helps,

Guido

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:37 AM Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2013 gave no discount to workshop presenters (which they didn’t like but
> they still presented) or to people presenting in the main conference.
>
> We gave free passes to a small number of invited speakers and many of
> those were only for 1 day as they didn’t stay for the whole conference.
>
> We had a student bursary scheme for about 8-10 students which was
> specifically funded by one of our sponsors
>
> We had some volunteer passes - a free day pass if you worked half the day
> and attended sessions for half
> ______
>
> Steven
>
>
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 08:07, 신상희 <shshin at gaia3d.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Till,
>
> FYI, Seoul team gave 50% discount to only 1 instructor per selected
> workshop. However we didn't give any discount to main conference speakers
> except keynote speakers, travel grantees.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Sanghee
>
> 2016-03-02 16:46 GMT+09:00 <till.adams at fossgis.de>:
>
>> Am 2016-03-01 20:55, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting
>> OSGeo.nl <http://osgeo.nl>:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Yesterday en today I had contact with 2 potential presenters from
>>> Holland.
>>>
>>> What came to my mind was that I don't know whether presenters,
>>> workshop trainers/guides/supervisor and other activists pay the full
>>> entrance price or have a somehow reduced entrance fee.
>>>
>>> If they pay the full price, a submission is in fact also a sort of
>>> blanc contract to join foss4g, but without knowing the entrance fee
>>> nor the program (yet)
>>>
>>> Do I miss something here?
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Gert-Jan
>>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just to make it clear to everybody:
>>
>> 1. In general there are *no* free tickets! We'll have only three
>> exceptions:
>>  - we from LOC (due to the LOC list in the OSGeo WIKI)
>>  - keynoters
>>  - our student helpers (they work for us 50% of the time)
>> 2. All presenters have to pay full entrance, we can't make it other way
>> (regard, we'll have around 150-200 presenters, how could this work?)
>> 3. We agreed in having a minor reduction for workshop trainers, but that
>> won't be really much, maybe 25% - in Korea and Nottingham there was no
>> reduced fee at all
>> 4. what are guides, supervisors, "other activists" ...?
>> 5. The fees will be between 550-600€ for early bird and 700-750€ for
>> regular - we didn't announce them yet: For now we plan with the higher
>> fees, but want to reduce them as we get more sponsors coming in
>>
>>
>> So the rough numbers could be released, if somebody asks.
>>
>> Till
>>
>>
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