On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:24:58PM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
There are two main cases:
1) I want to attend Flock, but I cannot get my employer/sponsor to
fund it if I do not get a talk accepted
2) I want to attend Flock to present about $my_thing but that's about it
You can message to death about not needing to be accepted to be part
of Flock in the case of 1, but that's a really hard concept for
employers to get their head around. It comes off as "yeah, send your
people to Flock because we want more attendees!", which makes it no
different than any other conference that just wants people. If you
add an explicit *invite* system for people needed and why they are
needed, that helps. But I suspect you'll have a lot of people not
registering until they get their talk submitted because of that
reason.
Yeah, that's fair, and I don't really know what to do about it. I like
the invite idea. What if we called it a "Contributor Summit" instead of
"Conference"? Maybe that will help employers understand? Also, we could
possibly add a checkbox to the financial assistance section saying "my
employer will fund travel if my talk is accepted, and I need help
otherwise".
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader