[OSGeo-Conf] Open open source, reduce registration fees.

[Till Adams]

+1 - Paul hits 100% my opinion.

Am 06.02.2017 um 18:15 schrieb Paul Ramsey:
> Regular reminder:
> No doubt a $100 drop on registration would be determinative for a few,
> but it will not do much to change the equation for even a backpacking
> overseas traveller, who will pay (from Vancouver) $1000 to get there
> and $600+ in accommodation and meals, depending on how long they stay
> (doing workshops? doing code sprint?)
> Using second-city sites (Victoria instead of Vancouver, Lausanne
> instead of Geneva) can shave registration dollars at the margins, but
> they'll get eaten up instead in travel costs. 
> Local regional conferences (Foss4g.nl) should probably aim to go low
> and hyper-accessible, since they draw from a population that can
> economize on all aspects of the conference experience (stay at home,
> get up at 4am and walk to the venue from Haarlem, bring a bag lunch).
> Foss4g international is... international, there's going to be a
> minimum spend to get there and do it, no matter how few coffees are
> served, how spare the venue, or how much volunteers are used and abused.
> P.
>
> On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 7:54 AM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com
> <mailto:shfeldman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Reposting this from the board list as it may interest the CC.
>
>     The current target in RfP is $650 including social activities but
>     excluding workshops. The costs of travel and accommodation have
>     equalled or, for out of region delegates, exceed the registration
>     costs.
>
>     To my knowledge no proposal has been received for the last 5 years
>     that was able to support 800+ delegates at ca $500
>
>     2019 will be a ‘European’ year, I am sure that the CC would
>     welcome a $500 proposal from the Netherlands community
>
>     ______
>     Steven
>
>     Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2017 09:38:47 +0000
>     From: <l.g.j.boerboom at utwente.nl <mailto:l.g.j.boerboom at utwente.nl>>
>     To: <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>
>     Subject: [Board] Open open source, reduce registration fees.
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>     Dear board,
>
>     Where is the cap on registration fees for FOSS4G? You have closed
>     open source to me with these steep registration fees. You have to
>     change this. A few years ago I could hardly convince my
>     departmental management to pay for registration. Now it is
>     impossible! Please open up the conference again. Open open source!
>     Those who cannot organize a conference below $500 should not be
>     allowed to organize. Scale down. No fancy stuff. Back to the
>     basics! Back to the core!
>
>     With kind regards,
>
>     Luc Boerboom
>
>     Dr. Ir. Luc Boerboom
>     Assist. Prof Spatial Planning and Decision Support Systems and
>     Infrastructures
>     Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Geo-information
>     Management
>     Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation
>     (ITC), http://www.itc.nl/
>     University of Twente, http://www.utwente.nl/
>
>     E: l.g.j.boerboom at utwente.nl
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