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

[Dirk Frigne]

Till,

> I think the most impressive event for the
> participants (and also for those, just looking from outside) at FOSS4G
> in Bonn was the Social Event on the boat.
> Impressive atmosphere.
> Impressive pictures.
> Personally, I will never forget this event and I am quite sure, that
> most of those, who joined us, won't also.

I fully agree!

On 09-02-17 17:01, Till Adams wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> many thanks Ian, I share your opinion. As long as we have affordable
> regional/local events, we can (and should) have one big event per year.
> That does not mean, that costs should raise and raise, but if we keep
> the costs for the conference in the frame of 600-850 $, I really do not
> see any problems. (And please compare our fees to any other 3-day
> conferences ... ;-))
> 
> If I seperate the fees we had in Bonn, I can state that we spent about
> 2/3 of the money for
> - conference venue (where is the place to host 800 - 1000 people?? - Of
> course, an official conference venue)
> - food (in our case, the caterer was fixed with the venue)
> 
> We could have saved 7-9% of the fees by not making the boat trip and
> replace it with any party, where people even had to pay for their food.
> Go there, be happy and forget it, because you joined hundreds of these
> parties in your life. I think the most impressive event for the
> participants (and also for those, just looking from outside) at FOSS4G
> in Bonn was the Social Event on the boat.
> Impressive atmosphere.
> Impressive pictures.
> Personally, I will never forget this event and I am quite sure, that
> most of those, who joined us, won't also.
> 
> 
> Even if you are able to lower the fees under 550$ does not influence the
> decision of 99% of the people whether to attend or not.
> 
> Having an international event with this size definitely costs money and
> if we as a community (including science, individuals, developers, but
> also business) don't want to go back to Stone Age, we need at least one
> representative event. If we do not host such an event, others will do.
> For sure.
> 
> 
> Till
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 09.02.2017 um 16:24 schrieb Ian Turton:
>>
>>
>> On 9 February 2017 at 14:29, Venkatesh Raghavan
>> <<mailto:venka.osgeo at gmail.com>venka.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>     My trip to FOSS4G-Bonn cost me 1500USD for air-tickets, 630USD
>>     (early bird Including gala dinner) for registration and 250USD
>>     (for 7 nights) for sharing a nice little house with Gerald and
>>     Nick.
>>
>>
>> Your airfare was 3 x the conference fee - that is where you could of
>> saved (maybe AreoFlot via Moscow and Havana? or similarly quality
>> airline) if you can find local conferences that can be attended for
>> $60 per person then great but it's irrelevant to the cost of the
>> global meeting.
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
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