Hi Charles,
The issue is if you pay registration fee and then your proposal is not accepted.
~m
----- charles profitt <fedora(a)cprofitt.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 2017-06-22 at 16:57 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> > Many speakers (~20) did not register for Flock when submitting their
> > proposals. They didn't want to register because they weren't going
> > to
> > come unless their proposal was accepted.
> >
> > Problem is, we then don't have their funding request info. If
> > decisions
> > about who is going to be funded are made regardless of whether or
> > not
> > they proposed a talk or not - if someone is essential, we should
> > consider their funding, but if they dont register we dont know how
> > much
> > funding they are asking for.
> >
> > We should probably separate registration ("Yes, I'm coming")
from
> > funding request ("I'd like to come, can you help fund me?")
> >
> > Another issue is that there were folks that didn't want to register
> > until they knew they were accepted because they didn't want to lose
> > the
> > registration fee. Even though I think we explain we'd refund it.
> > Maybe
> > we should have some mechanism where you're only asked to pay it once
> > your funding request is accepted.
> >
> > ~m
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>
> Many of the other conferences I have attended automatically cover the
> registration fee for any accepted speakers. Also, if the speaker needs
> funding they included that in the application...
>
> I think the only issue there is people who would like to attend, but do
> not have a session approved -- how do we handle that scenario?
>
> If we are funding someone why would we not include the registration fee
> in that funding?
>
> Charles