[Foss4g2009] Discounts

[Cameron Shorter]

My suggestion is that we don't have any freebies for the conference. I 
want to ensure we are covering costs.

Incentives that we offer will be that people can go at cost price. Ie, 
the cost of variable expenses for one person.

Workshops will be free to presenters due to the material they need to 
prepare, and these will be paid for by workshop attendees.

Committee members will be let in at cost, a token of the effort they 
have contributed.

Sponsors will include a free pass.

Media sponsors (Position Magazine) will include a free pass. (A free 
pass is swapped for advertising).

Dave Patton wrote:
> In a budget meeting yesterday, the subject of "discounts"
> came up. As a reminder, here's the email I sent about
> this subject a couple of weeks ago:
>
> On 2008/10/10 11:45 PM, Dave Patton wrote:
>> As it says on the FOSS4G 2007 Lessons Learned page:
>> "Everyone wants a discount, and everyone feels they
>> have a right to a discount. As with your policy for
>> travel support, figure out your discount policy well
>> in advance."
>>
>> I've created a Discounts page for 2009:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Discounts
>> For now, all I've done is to copy the 2007 page,
>> and made some edits to remove some links and to
>> remove the details for Volunteers.
>>
>> We should get the discounts sorted out fairly soon,
>> and then stick with whatever we decide. The 2008
>> page has a few additional items, but because it hasn't
>> been edited since May, I don't know what their actual
>> discount schedule was:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G2008_Discounts
>


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