On 19.09.2012 15:00, Nick Burch wrote: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >> So how does this set the paid PhD student apart from $dev that is not being >> paid by his boss to go >> to ApacheCon and wants to do so on his own time? > > The student rate is being largely funded by sponsorship from Google, and they > want it targetted at > students, so that's what we're doing > > We've also managed to secure some funding to reduce the price for committers, > an announcement about > that should be going out any day now. Speakers will also be able to get a > free ticket if their > employer isn't able to pay, we'll be notifying speakers of the details once > the schedule is posted. > >> If we go down that route we consequently must give every person that is not >> being paid for going >> to ApacheCon the student rebate. > > TAC exists to help people get to the conference who otherwise couldn't afford > to. TAC covers your > registration, hotel and flights, and so can generally ensure that money isn't > an issue for people to > attend. People have now missed the chance for TAC assistance for ApacheCon > Europe, but I'd strongly > encourage people to apply for ApacheCon North America if they're in a > situation where they're not > working / working but in a role that doesn't pay that much. > > If you'd like us to offer the student rate to everyone, please help us find a > sponsor to cover it! :) >
I don't, to the contrary. I'm arguing to limit this to students in the stricter sense. Uli
