[Board] Fwd: [Foss4g2010] subscriptions

[Jeff McKenna]

Paul Ramsey wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> One thing that has been contemplated in the past, but was generally not
>> considered financially viable, was to have some slush money in the
>> conference budget to pay for travel costs or at least "comped" conference
> 
> Among the options available to you if you start from a higher base
> rate (and FOSS4G continues to have among the lowest rates I've seen
> for an international non-academic conference) is speaker discounts,
> which would simultaneously allow you to increase overall revenues
> while addressing the most cogent criticism of the pricing structure
> that I have heard, namely that "OSGeo expects you to pay to come speak
> at FOSS4G".
> 
> Paul "Just because the software is free doesn't mean everything else
> has to be" Ramsey

Good points Paul and Geoff.  Personally I'm for a higher base rate, 
rather than somehow finding replacement revenue for OSGeo.

I think my task was to get a final budget from the 2010 team (which I 
never did).  I will follow up now and mention these revenue/rates 
concerns also.

-jeff