[Conference-europe] Registration fee

[Bart van den Eijnden]

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.

Best regards,
Bart

On 10 Dec 2014, at 08:19, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:

> Dear Johan
> excellent point. But let me think a bit more how to exploit your suggestion: besides the "normal" registration we have also the sponsorship package (http://europe.foss4g.org/2015/#sponsors) . 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? 
> Thanks a lot!
> Maria
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
> Politecnico di Milano
> 
> FOSS4G ASIA - Don't miss it!
> http://www.foss4g-asia.org/2014/ 
>  
> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
>  
> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
> e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> e-mail2: prorettrice at como.polimi.it
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Da: Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw at gmail.com>
> Inviato: martedì 9 dicembre 2014 20.23
> A: Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Cc: foss4g-europe; conference-europe-private at lists.osgeo.org; Jeff McKenna; Stefano Campus
> Oggetto: Re: [Conference-europe] Registration fee
>  
> Maria,
> 
> Thanks for keeping the costs down - it helps to be an inclusive community!
> 
> 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.
> 
> Anyway, looking forward to the conference!
> Johan
> 
> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Polimi <maria.brovelli at polimi.it> wrote:
> Dear All
> 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!).
> 
> Here the fees we need at least to start the conference:
> 
> 100 euro for normal registration and 50 euro for students before 30th April 2015 (Early Bird)
> 
> 200 euro for normal registration and 100 for students after 30th April 2015
> 
> 300 euro on site registration.
> 
> Workshops: 
> 
> 20 euro for each workshop
> 
> It seems me reasonable costs. I hope to have many people to be able to offer more and more.
> 
> In few days Nick will prepare also this page and then, at least, the first step is done!
> Thanks to everybody!
> 
> Maria
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
> Politecnico di Milano
> 
> 
> FOSS4G EUROPE - Don't miss it!  Home
> 
> 	
> 
> 
>  
> ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET 
>  
> Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALY)
> Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321
> e-mail1: maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> e-mail2: prorettrice at como.polimi.it
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Conference-Europe mailing list
> Conference-Europe at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Conference-Europe mailing list
> Conference-Europe at lists.osgeo.org
> http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/conference-europe

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference-europe/attachments/20141210/48d70f6e/attachment.html>