On 04/18/2013 04:32 PM, inode0 wrote:
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Ruth Suehle rsuehle@gmail.com wrote:
We briefly discussed in the meeting today the possibility of charging a small registration fee. The benefits include:
- Money (of course)
- People are more likely to come even if they've paid just $5. Crazy, but
true. And knowing an actual number helps us *immensely* with planning.
- We can offer free registration as a perk for speakers and sponsors.
The question is, what is the right amount?
If the point of this is to get contributors then I'd say the right amount is $0 for them. For other people you need to balance the cost of the attendee against the attendee's peceived value and those are both unknown. So any number is just picking a random number that might feel reasonable.
While it was mentioned in the meeting today that a fee was now possible I missed any discussion of planning to charge one for this event. I really think we are making this event difficult enough to attend without doing that now.
I'm inclined to agree. I'd rather try to sell Fedora merch than collect a registration fee. (I know that doesn't help us get budget for this event, but unless we were going to charge three figures for registration, I'm not sure it will make a difference.)
Then again, we can always reconsider this if we can't get sponsors to help.
~tom