[FOSS4G2016] Attendance fee and transparency report

[till.adams at fossgis.de]

Hi Volker,

intention: understood.

Prices: I see two problems.
1. LOC are held to make a surplus, that goes to OSGeo, but OSGeo does 
not really care about financial issues.
2. The surrounding: YOu need a conference center (expensive), official 
PCO (expensive), gala event included (expensive)

What really surprised me is hat there are two people handing in their 
talks and not expecting, that the conference costs money...regarding 
travel and accommodation costs, I guess, that normally the conference 
fee does not make such big difference - of course depending on where the 
people come from.

We should definitely ask the speakers to register ASAP and then see, 
what we must do, in order to fill potential gaps in the programme.

Till




Am 2016-05-09 08:28, schrieb Volker Mische:
> Hi LOC,
>
> the intention is *not* to change our pricing, just forward the 
> feedback
> I got. There are already two speakers who can't attend because the 
> 600
> EUR are too much.
>
> I know that's a general topic that should be discussed with a broader
> audience (the whole OSGeo, not only this list), I just felt obliged 
> to
> let the LOC know :)
>
> For those who can't attend it will be to late, but I plan to do a
> transparency report after the conference similar to the LXJS 2012 [1] 
> or
> JS Unconf 2014 [2].
>
> What do you think about the idea?
>
> [1]: http://2013.lxjs.org/about
> [2]: http://2014.jsunconf.eu/news/js-unconf-transparency-report/
>
> Cheers,
>   Volker
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