On 2010-12-17, at 15:09, Brian Johnson wrote: > So if this person is working full-time, why should he/she get a > discount? If you say it's because he/she will have less money due to his > attendance in a school, this then becomes an argument on whether there > needs to be a charity for people who cannot afford the fees.
I prefer the pragmatic approach, which I think is "a person is a student if they say they are". The vast majority of us are paid by an employer to go to NANOG and have no incentive to lie about this. Over-engineering a tight set of criteria (a) will never entirely satisfy the full range of real-world situations, and (b) can only act as a barrier to entry when the goals of the organisation is surely more closely aligned with getting more people to participate. > For the record, I would be fine with a reduced rate student membership > that gives access to meeting discounts and allows for them to identify > themselves as members, but does not allow them to participate in > elections. I think this kind of thinking is wrong. I greatly prefer a simple, binary "member / non-member" set of states, and for discounts to any of the various fees applicable to NANOG activities being adjusted as appropriate on their merits. Joe _______________________________________________ Nanog-futures mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures
