On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Marcel Offermans <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 12, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: >>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:27 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can you give us a ballpark for what you expect committer & speaker >>>>> tickets to cost, or what the options look like? >>>>> >>>> Sorry, we just haven't got that far down the road yet. >>> >>> No worries. It's just a bit hard to have a reasonable discussion >>> without that :-) >>> >>> FWIW, I was surprised at the corporate level tickets: especially when >>> there's an individual level, I would have thought the corporate could >>> go up a little higher. If a measured increase in that allowed us to >>> have free speaker tickets/sub-$300-committer-tickets, I would be >>> strongly in favour. >> >> I'm sure you would, but corporations have budgets too, you know. > > The "problem" I have with the distinction between individuals and > corporations is that Apache has always been all about individuals. Companies > cannot even join. Therefore I think it would be strange to suddenly make such > a distinction for ACNA and I'm curious what others think about this. >
I understand your difficulty with the language, but I think the concept is sound. At the current levels, I can't see anyone coming to the conference without *some* business footing the bill (even if it's a sole contractor who can write it off as a business expense.) I hope that the committer tickets and speaker situation will allow some people to come without it being a business expense, but if not, it will still be an interesting experiment. Noirin
