On Sep 12, 2012, at 3:31 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:20 AM, Steve Holden <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sep 12, 2012, at 2:48 AM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: >> >>> >>> 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. > > And even at a moderate increase over your figures, they'd be coming in > well under-budget based on previous years :-) > > Like I said, we've been burnt before with "experiments" that turned > into unalterable assumptions for every later year, and I'm keen that > we avoid that here. > > ApacheCon must be affordable for non-corporate speakers, IMO, and it > doesn't make sense to start arguing it much before we have real > numbers to look at.
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