Just a thought – this year NACIS livestreamed their entire conference<http://nacis.org/annual-meeting/current-meeting/> to their members.
Maybe charging a fee to receive streams of the FOSS4G sessions would allow some people to attend that couldn’t otherwise afford to. I count myself in that number. Thank you, Nonie [cid:image005.png@01D3481A.5632B670] [cid:image007.png@01D0632F.7C5C2250] Nonie Castro Senior GIS Specialist nonie_cas...@valpak.com<mailto:nonie_cas...@valpak.com> valpak.com<http://www.valpak.com/> From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Aime Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 3:30 AM To: Bruce Bannerman Cc: discuss Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Costly FOSS4Gs On Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com<mailto:bruce.bannerman.os...@gmail.com>> wrote: When you look at the costs associated with a person attending a typical international FOSS4G event, the actual conference fees a small amount of the actual cost. Consider airfares, transportation, accomodation, meals, lost wages etc. There is nothing that an LOC can do about these individual costs. Ah hem, nothing that the LOC can do once the conference site is chosen, but something that OSGeo can do when assigning the location and timing. And I believe that is happening, if I'm not wrong for the first time the LOC needs to provide expected cost of airfare and accommodation as part of their proposal, which will make people consider carefully that aspect too. Another aspect that was not cited but that I heard in conversations and believe is important, it's that it is really hard to compress the cost of a large conference: the LOC needs a place that can host 1000 people, and that can give internet to this many people, that places forces the catering package on you (I've been told by several conference chairs there no way to dodge that) and the two together make up for a large amount of the cost. So, besides some exceptions (think FOSDEM) it seems the only way to setup a cheaper conference is to make a smaller one that can be hosted at a university or in a smaller conference center. Hence the focus on the local conferences. I believe the threshold is at around 500 people, larger than that one is hung on the costly options. Cheers Andrea == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/it488V for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via di Montramito 3/A 55054 Massarosa (LU) phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003 Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003. The information in this message and/or attachments, is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) and may be confidential or proprietary in nature or covered by the provisions of privacy act (Legislative Decree June, 30 2003, no.196 - Italy's New Data Protection Code).Any use not in accord with its purpose, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or either dissemination, either whole or partial, is strictly forbidden except previous formal approval of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please contact immediately the sender by telephone, fax or e-mail and delete the information in this message that has been received in error. The sender does not give any warranty or accept liability as the content, accuracy or completeness of sent messages and accepts no responsibility for changes made after they were sent or for other risks which arise as a result of e-mail transmission, viruses, etc.
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