[FOSS4G2016] Accept/reject talk emails

Wed Apr 27 02:09:07 PDT 2016

Hi LOC, 

Registering before the 1st of July seems like a good idea to me. 15th of June is perhaps even better. That leaves us with at least some time before the holiday season kicks off if presenters -for whatever reason- do not register to find an alternative.

Early bird discount ends in 10 days. It would be fair to extend this -just for the presenters- two week (given the fact that the upcoming weeks are filled with holidays).
I suppose our "financial department" has to decide whether our funds are enough to engage all 180 presenters for the reduced early bird discount fare.

The travel grant program is an option for just a few presenters (those form the lower-income countries). Therefore I would not emphasize this too much, or at least make it clear that this only concerns a minority of the presenters

Regards, 

Gert-Jan

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Van: FOSS4G2016 [mailto:foss4g2016-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] Namens Volker Mische
Verzonden: woensdag 27 april 2016 10:15
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Onderwerp: [FOSS4G2016] Accept/reject talk emails

Hi LOC,

I currently draft the email to accept/rejecting the talks. I use the email from 2014 as template.

There is a section about attending:

1) If you are UNABLE to attend, please let the committee know as soon as possible, but not later than July 15th, by sending an e-mail to program at foss4g2016.org. If you are able to attend, then there is no need to let us know.

If you haven't registered for the conference by July 15th, expect an e-mail from us asking you about your plans. Remember, the early bird discount ends on June 15th, so just go ahead and register now.

Unfortunately, we are not able to offer any additional discount to presenters. However, we do have a travel grant program. Applications for that are due on May 30th. For more information, please see:
https://2014.foss4g.org/attending/discounts-and-grants/.

That makes a lot of sense, my questions are:

 - Until which date should they register? What about 2016-07-01?
 - Looking at this year's Early Bird registration ends 2016-05-08. Isn't that a bit tight for people getting the emails on Thu/Fri? I'm thinking about governmental institutions here
 - Is the preferred link to the travel grant program http://2016.foss4g.org/attending.html#travel-grants ?
 - What is the travel program due date?

Cheers,
  Volker
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