Paolo,
As a past FOSS4G organisor, I'd like to echo the logic of Steven Feldman
and the rest of the FOSS4G 2013 committee.
The time to discuss give-aways for foss4g 2013 was when the budget was
being discussed, because if you give some people a free pass, you need
to charge others more. This time has passed.
If you wish to influence the direction of future foss4g events, probably
the best way to do so is get involved in the organising of the
conference, or maybe help write a foss4g-cookbook (which has been
discussed for a while, but is yet to materialise).
Personally, I think Bruce Bannerman described well the challenges of
providing a fair funding policy which everyone is happy with, and which
will attract attendees. (Paolo, your ideals are worthy, but practical
implementation is a mind field of dissatisfied attendees).
On 9/03/2013 6:07 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
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Il 08/03/2013 16:16, Steven Feldman ha scritto:
I've been following the conversation that was prompted by Paolo's
comment about FOSS4G pricing
We are trying to balance the need to have an economically viable
conference that covers costs and returns funds to OSGeo (which is
what we were asked to do) with making the event as affordable and
accessible as possible. We consulted with the OSGeo Board on how to
balance these objectives before finalising our prices.
Hi all.
We have shown that admitting for free a limited number of top developers
from OSGeo core projects, that could not otherwise attend, will not be a
cost to the conference, but an opportunity. The attitude shown confirms
the widespread feeling of a modest attention to developers, and of the
primary aim of FOSS4G as a moneymaking machine.
To me, developers are really the blood and nerves of free software, and
should be cared of.
This closure to a reasonable proposal does not shed a bight light on
OSGeo, too.
All the best.
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