[Foss4g2009] Confused about workshop registration fee

[Bruce]

To reinforce what Mark has said, the budget is very tight this year
given the current world economic climate.

We would like to be able to provide more freebies, however, I doubt that
this will be possible. 


Our first priority is to get a successful conference that is financially
responsible and does not cause OSGeo to lose money.


(Jeff this should answer your question as well.)


Bruce Bannerman




On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 12:24 +1000, Mark Leslie wrote:
> Thierry Badard wrote:
> > Tim Schaub a écrit :
> >> Hey-
> >>
> >> Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >>> Roald de Wit wrote:
> >>>> Hi list,
> >>>>
> >>>> I was just about to register for the conference and was confronted 
> >>>> with the question whether or not to pay the registration fee for the 
> >>>> workshops. I will be co-hosting an accepted workshop, by being the 
> >>>> assistant.
> >>>>
> >>>> My questions are:
> >>>> - When you are a co-host of a workshop, do you have to pay to attend 
> >>>> that workshop?
> >>>> - We had an offer from somebody else to help out by providing 
> >>>> assistance during the workshop. What about this person?
> >>>> - When I want to visit 1 or 2 other workshops, do I have to pay the 
> >>>> fee (being a co-host) for another workshop?
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm sure there must be a section on the site that covers this, but I 
> >>>> couldn't find it.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Hello Roald,
> >>>
> >>> You should have received an email from Mark Leslie (I've included the 
> >>> email below) explaining workshop registration.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I received the same email, just reviewed it, and am left wondering the 
> >> same.  If someone is co-presenting a workshop, do they need to pay for 
> >> workshop registration?  I would assume not?
> >>
> >> My read of the email from Mark is that there is one free *conference* 
> >> registration per workshop (though it says workshop registration).  I 
> >> understand that only one presenter per workshop gets the registration 
> >> to the conference waived.  Roald's (and my) questions are about 
> >> getting co-presenters a pass to the workshop only (not the rest of the 
> >> conference).
> >>
> >> Last year, we had great success with the OpenLayers workshop because 
> >> 10 or so developers and power-users volunteered to help out with the 
> >> workshop.  Their assistance (walking around the crowd and answering 
> >> questions) was invaluable.  In addition to a co-presenter, will there 
> >> be any way to get additional volunteers a pass to a specific workshop?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Tim
> >>
> >>> -jeff
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Some replies seem to be available at:
> > 
> > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2009_Discounts#Workshop_Instructors
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Th.
> > 
> 
>  From the stand-point of registering, you aren't registering for 
> workshops, so you don't need to sign up for those.  That's for actual 
> seats at the workshop.  I've passed along the names of all the free 
> conference passes on, as well as all those currently slated to be 
> helping out.  I see no reason you couldn't sign up to attend a workshop 
> that doesn't overlap your own if you like, but you will be charged for 
> it.  Where things are a bit fuzzy right now are for volunteers that 
> _are_not_ listed on the workshop submissions.
> 
> The issue here is that it's not actually free to have people there. 
> There's administrative and feeding costs involved, which are 
> non-trivial.  Having 5 assistants for each workshop would appreciably 
> increase our costs.  Charging them for volunteering doesn't seem quite 
> right.  Getting them nametags identifying them as do-not-feeds would 
> reduce the costs to admin only, but isn't a nice "thank-you for 
> helping".  I'm open to other suggestions.
> 
> Mark Leslie
> Geospatial Software Architect
> LISAsoft
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