[OSGeo-Conf] question from non-member of the conference-committee

[Jachym Cepicky]

Thanks for your answer

All right for me

J

Dne 4.7.2013 02:02, Darrell Fuhriman napsal(a):
> 
> Obviously I'm biased towards students, because I'm also an instructor
> at PSU (as is Percy), but I think a student presence is very
> important.
> 
> I think the value to students can be pretty significant, especially
> in light of the academic track. For the student of all things
> geospatial,  who is specifically interested in Open Source/Data then
> FOSS4G is the only conference out there. Huge conferences like AAG
> are not focused enough, and obviously the Esri UC is not the right
> venue.  It's one reason we, as PDX-OSGeo try to have presence at all
> the regional conferences, too.
> 
> And of course for students, it's also a great place to make contacts
> for future job prospects, or to meet potential graduate advisors.
> 
> While I'm here, I'm also going to merge in the question of student
> discounts.
> 
> I do tend to agree that giving a discount to everyone deserving would
> become quickly unmanageable. That being said, I don't consider
> student discounts to be superfluous, or unmanageable.
> 
> It's true that discounting registrations for students who travel long
> distances is probably not as necessary, since the registration is not
> a big chunk of the overall expense. (On the other hand, I remember
> from my own grad school days the degree of discomfort to which
> students would subject themselves in order to save a few bucks while
> traveling to a conference.)
> 
> My proposed solution, and one I've seen work well, is that the
> student discount would be tied to something else – volunteer labor.
> Iin order to get the discount you need to volunteer for one full day.
> There's always tons of work to be done, from manning the registration
> desk to passing the microphone during Q&A sessions, etc. That, I
> think is well worth a discount. Otherwise that labor would have to be
> recruited, always an unreliable option, or it would have to be paid
> for. I think "paying" students with a discount neatly solves both
> problems. It also means you could decide to cap the number of student
> discounts given to the number of volunteers you expect to need.
> 
> Would that mean the discount would go primarily to local students?
> Yep. But I'm OK with that.
> 
> The next question is, what should the discount be? I don't have an
> absolute answer to that, but my gut feeling is to set the student
> price at not more than $200, and less if we can.
> 
> Darrell
> 
> 
> On Jul 3, 2013, at 14:42, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I just had again a look at both proposals, and I might miss some 
>> information about discount for students in the Portland proposal 
>> (please, correct me, if I'm wrong).
>> 
>> I hope, we all agree, that students are important part of FOSS4G 
>> conference for various reasons and it is in general good, to have
>> them here.
>> 
>> Could you both bidders summarize in short, what are the benefits
>> for students, so we would attract them to come to the conference?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot
>> 
>> Jachym -- Jachym Cepicky Help Service - Remote Sensing s.r.o. 
>> jachym.cepicky at gmail.com HS-RS: jachym at hsrs.cz http://bnhelp.cz 
>> http://les-ejk.cz
>> 
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