[Board] Re: [OSGeo-Conf] "OSGeo Teach-in

[Paul Ramsey]

Sorry Jo, brevity is the soul of wit :)

Some factual stuff:

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 3:48 PM,  <jo at frot.org> wrote:
> FOSS4G Workshops are always oversubscribed, both for presenters
> and attenders. As Hobu put it, the economics are "screwed" -
> it takes a lot of time and effort to develop the materials.
> The workshops provide a large part of the conference revenue;
> the reward for presenters is token (one free entry?).

As priced in 2007, the workshops took in just enough money to pay for
putting on the workshops. (Rooms for one day, computer rentals, A/V,
food for students.)  The economics are indeed screwed, but not exactly
in the way you imply.  Since the rest of the conference days actually
generated profit, to some extent the rest of the conference subsidized
the workshops.

> If there is a definite date by which the proposers need to start
> marketing and labelling their event, that would help focus this
> debate a lot.

To pick a day out of the air: July 4.

P.