[FOSS4G-Oceania] Fwd: student/volunteer pricing

[adam steer]

hi all

I don’t think volunteers should pay, we can wear the catering costs.

I think volunteers should get a t-shirt they can wear to identify them as
helpers; then take home.

I can see how there might be a call for some rules around that, ie what
about people who volunteer for one session vs a full day? or one session vs
both days? what about workshops?

Maybe a full day is the minimum? ie you sign up for a session, but for the
rest of the day if you’re there and in your volunteer t-shirt you’re on
duty to help attendees and /or help out at the rego desk; and manage
slipping in and out of sessions among your cohort of volunteers on the day.

?? my .02, keep the ball rolling!



On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 12:49, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Bringing this into the committee for discussion. A few weeks ago it was
> suggested that student volunteers won't be able to afford the pricing @
> $200... so need to perhaps revisit this.
>
> John
>
> From: Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 11:52
> Subject: Re: student/volunteer pricing
> To: Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>, John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
> Cc: Sarah Goodwin <sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>, Philip Mallis <
> philip at philipmallis.com>
>
>
> John, all,
>
> I agree volunteers are a workforce here, and the least we can do is to get
> them in for free.
>
> That said, we should – if we want to be cautious – make sure we only seek
> as many volunteers as we really need ( and this can be relaxed later, if we
> are faring very well with rebgistrations).
>
> So, how many. FTE do we need? I can think of: registration desk for 4
> days, 1x person per each parallel session (microphones, etc), and maybe a
> spare 1 for swaps, and 2 people to run around on the workshop/codesprint
> day? Is that then 4+3*2+2+2*2=16 FTE? So avg 4 people per day, more on main
> conference days. Is this too many?
>
>
>
> What are the costs/loses from volunteers? We should provide them with
> catering, but maybe no swag ( but possibly a T-shirt) – so a cost of about
> $1500 at a guesstimate. Can we see whether we can pad this if our
> sponsoring goes particularly well?
>
>
>
> M.
>
>
>
> *From: *Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, 19 July 2018 at 11:32 am
> *To: *John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>, Sarah Goodwin <
> sarah.goodwin at monash.edu>, Philip Mallis <philip at philipmallis.com>
> *Subject: *Re: student/volunteer pricing
>
>
>
> The way I see it, if a student volunteer is only helping out, then they
> shouldn't pay.
>
>
>
> If they want to help out a bit, and see the conference too, then they
> should pay.
>
> I've never had volunteer pricing before... never needed volunteers. We've
> had student pricing, though, and I think our price is cheap for that. But I
> guess it's not student pricing, it's "student volunteer" pricing, so it's
> different.
>
>
>
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 at 07:11 John Bryant <johnwbryant at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey folks,
>
>
>
> A few weeks ago it was suggested that student volunteers won't be able to
> afford the pricing @$200. I'm wondering if we should revisit this?
>
>
>
> I've added it as an agenda item for this week's meeting - I thought we
> could perhaps have a brief discussion about it then, to understand the
> dimensions of the issue, and then take the discussion to an email thread.
> Does this sound like a good idea?
>
>
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
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>
>
>
> Alex Leith
>
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