[FOSS4G2016] admission fee for presenters, workshoppers trainers etc.

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

I think our Seoul team has set a good precedent
with discounts and free passes for Keynote speaker
and travel grantees which could be followed in
future FOSS4G conferences.

Best

Venka

On 2016/03/03 0:07, Sanghee Shin wrote:
> If I add more in detail from Seoul team,
>
> 1. 50% discount to 1 person per workshop
> 2. Free pass to 8 keynote speakers and 9 travel grantees. So, even LOC members paid full registration fee.
> 3. 20% discount to early bird
> 4. 30% discount to students
> 5. 30% discount to attendees from Low or Lower-Middle Income Economies defined by the World Bank and WHO
>
> regards,
> 신상희
> ---
> Shin, Sanghee
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>> 2016. 3. 2., 오후 5:07, 신상희 <shshin at gaia3d.com> 작성:
>>
>> Dear Till,
>>
>> FYI, Seoul team gave 50% discount to only 1 instructor per selected workshop. However we didn't give any discount to main conference speakers except keynote speakers, travel grantees.
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Sanghee
>>
>> 2016-03-02 16:46 GMT+09:00 <till.adams at fossgis.de <mailto:till.adams at fossgis.de>>:
>> Am 2016-03-01 20:55, schrieb Gert-Jan van der Weijden - Stichting OSGeo.nl:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Yesterday en today I had contact with 2 potential presenters from
>> Holland.
>>
>> What came to my mind was that I don't know whether presenters,
>> workshop trainers/guides/supervisor and other activists pay the full
>> entrance price or have a somehow reduced entrance fee.
>>
>> If they pay the full price, a submission is in fact also a sort of
>> blanc contract to join foss4g, but without knowing the entrance fee
>> nor the program (yet)
>>
>> Do I miss something here?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Gert-Jan
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> just to make it clear to everybody:
>>
>> 1. In general there are *no* free tickets! We'll have only three exceptions:
>>   - we from LOC (due to the LOC list in the OSGeo WIKI)
>>   - keynoters
>>   - our student helpers (they work for us 50% of the time)
>> 2. All presenters have to pay full entrance, we can't make it other way (regard, we'll have around 150-200 presenters, how could this work?)
>> 3. We agreed in having a minor reduction for workshop trainers, but that won't be really much, maybe 25% - in Korea and Nottingham there was no reduced fee at all
>> 4. what are guides, supervisors, "other activists" ...?
>> 5. The fees will be between 550-600€ for early bird and 700-750€ for regular - we didn't announce them yet: For now we plan with the higher fees, but want to reduce them as we get more sponsors coming in
>>
>>
>> So the rough numbers could be released, if somebody asks.
>>
>> Till
>>
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