On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 11:53:26AM +0200, Philip Van Hoof wrote: > Indeed, a registration fee itself isn't the big problem. But the concept > that some sort of high elite price (because that is what €100 and €200 > still is; the European currency hasn't inflated that much yet) must be > paid "just because <insert a bunch of false-reasons>", is wrong.
Ok, i was going to ignore this thread because there's a lot of FUD and bikeshedding potential and that's a waste of my time. But apparently i haven't re-iterated this enough: - there is NO MANDATORY ENTRANCE FEE!! - i repeat, THERE IS NO MANDATORY ENTRANCE FEE!!!!!!!!!!! - there is no formal verification or any need to present proof that you are not a professional or are a student or whatever, the fees are a suggestion, and we won't not let you in because you are a professional but didn't pay - we count on a very small proportion of the visitors paying the EUR 100,- or EUR 250,- - the amount we get with registration fees is expected to cover for about 15% - 20% of the travel sponsorships, sponsors pay for the rest - EUR 100,- is not a lot of money for a 3-day (5-day) conference, i'd happily pay that (i'm self-employed, and not rich because i'm a silly idealist who volunteers too much) - comparing the hague to Istanbul is silly, price levels are very very different Gr, Koen _______________________________________________ guadec-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/guadec-list
