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

[Andrew Ross]

Hi Jachym,

You may have noticed that the Washington D.C. proposal has a student 
discount built in.

We often recruit people who cannot afford the conference to participate 
for free in exchange for being part of the video recording team. The 
software user interface and hardware set up was designed to be very 
simple... typically <10 minutes of training are required.

Like Darrell & Percy, a few of our committee teach at Universities 
including myself so it's comfortable for us to agree with much of what 
he wrote.

Interestingly, we reached out to a number of different programs that 
teach programming to students and asked them if they might be interested 
to participate as part of a larger co-located code sprint. I've been 
involved with a few of these for a while.

We have set the student price at $300 for now in our budget. Should 
sponsorship exceed expectations, we will strive to lower that.

Many of the companies from our letters of support 
<https://drive.google.com/#folders/0BzSORaRRhk6SbHctZWZBS19YMkE> are 
hiring. HR/Recruiting is yet another good reason for students & 
companies to come.

We've discussed videos quite a bit... one more comment: people can 
review the material at their own pace, repeatedly, or on-demand as a 
reference. They are great for outreach and especially to students who 
can't make the conference.

Best regards,

Andrew

On 07/03/2013 05:42 PM, Jachym Cepicky 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
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/conference_dev/attachments/20130704/82d0202f/attachment.html>