Samuel Klein, 23/03/2014 00:21:
This has a few benefits:
* tickets fully cover the cost of food and materials
* tickets contribute significantly to covering the cost of the event
* scholarships and reimbursements for attendance (for scholars,
professionals, academics all getting covered by their
Ellie - I was looking at the proposed ticket prices in the 2015 bids :)
On 3/22/2014 4:21 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
Proposed prices for Wikimania tickets continue to seem artificially
low. I'm not sure what the benefit to this is. Could people who have
run events in other contexts comment on
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 4:04 AM, Michael Snow wikipe...@frontier.com wrote:
On 3/23/2014 12:47 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
listing higher ticket prices is a major deterrent to attending.
Worth exploring with data: what inspires or deters attendance. That
may be affected by all of: the various
I've been surprised at the low prices at Wikimania in Hongkong.
When I attend scientific conferences, the conference fee is
typically a few hundred Euro (or Dollar), usually enough to
cover the full cost of the conference. That said, these
conferences are often organised ad-hoc, or within a very
I am not sure it is the right approach to expect attendees to pay the full
price of the per capita conference cost instead of relying on sponsors and
donors to cover the majority of the costs.
Having some entry price can serve for creating an interest in the attendee
for taking advantage of the
Two general thoughts that I think are important.
Firstly, most attendees will pay the conference fee themselves. You cannot
compare with the general conference where those (high) fees are paid by the
university or company of the attendee.
Secondly, selection of Wikimania 2015 location is a voting
As Wikimedia movement, we have the luxury to approach this question
backwards. Instead of thinking about how we will pay for the event (we have
many sponsorship opportunities and even a good amount of donations), we can
look at who we would want to attend the event. We could design our pricing
A word from the trenches;
I am very keen to keep Wikimania prices low. It's not quite decided yet,
but I think our ticket prices will be less than $100, which compared to any
conference of comparable size is absurdly low; it would be worth buying a
ticket for the catering alone. It's not unusual
Just my two cents on ticket prices for Wikimedia conferences:
* I can confirm with what has been said about other, professional
conferences. Note the term professional.
* Having a voluntarily higher price for supportive participants is
something we could try. We could even try to distinguish
Thanks Ed. Since I know your team has thought a lot about who you want to
attract: a restating of Lodewijk's Q: how do you expect your pricing to
influence who attends, from the city / region / around the world?
On Mar 23, 2014 9:24 AM, Edward Saperia e...@wikimanialondon.org wrote:
A word from
On 2 January 2014 04:24, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote:
Everyone,
I would like to invite submissions[0] proposing presentations, panels,
tutorials and workshops for Wikimania 2014 in London this coming August.
Note that the deadline is the end of March; we hope to have final
Bence Damokos, 23/03/2014 13:28:
I am not sure it is the right approach to expect attendees to pay the
full price of the per capita conference cost instead of relying on
sponsors and donors to cover the majority of the costs.
It may also not be the right approach to expect attendees to have
On Mar 23, 2014 3:30 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
(how does the LinuxConf.au distinguish whether one is hobbyist or
professional)?
They give additional perks to piratical l professional attendees, like more
swag, a listing on the web site (IIRC), employer name on
Am 23.03.2014 22:08, schrieb Roan Kattouw:
On Mar 23, 2014 3:30 PM, Manuel Schneider
manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch mailto:manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
(how does the LinuxConf.au distinguish whether one is hobbyist or
professional)?
They give additional perks to piratical l
On Mar 23, 2014 8:30 PM, Manuel Schneider manuel.schnei...@wikimedia.ch
wrote:
Just my two cents on ticket prices for Wikimedia conferences:
* I can confirm with what has been said about other, professional
conferences. Note the term professional.
* Having a voluntarily higher price for
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