I get the point of the reg fee, just decide funding first and put a deadline in reg fee.
Dont count registrants who have an unpaid fee in counts for things.
~m
On June 24, 2017 12:09:44 PM EDT, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 23 June 2017 at 21:42, Máirín Duffy <duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>
wrote:
> Oh and my reason for starting this thtead is bc i dont think we
should ask
> for reg fee until funding is decided. It would simplify and lessen
confusion
> imho.
>
> ~m
>
>
I don't think there is a way we can please everyone here. The reason
for asking the fee was to get the N% of declared attendees who don't
show up to not sign up. This was an expensive throw-away funding on
food, t-shirts, and other bookings that could have been spent on
getting people who needed funding there. However the opposite is also
true, there are some M% of people who are not going to sign up because
they needed funding in the first place.
That said, we should not put too much correlation and causation into
people attending this year. There are multiple reasons bookings are
down for this and many other shows:
1. People from outside the US are less likely to travel to the US
currently. *
2. People inside the US are less likely to travel this year it would
seem.*
3. While we are getting great rates, they aren't the 'normal' fudcon
or local LUG rates various people may be looking at. Even with funding
promised that may be more than people want to take on.
Add onto that we want this to be a do-er event and many people go to
shows to listen to talks versus doing stuff. They may not feel they
can do stuff or that there is anything they want to do do when they
get there. Many others are going to look at what is going to be done
and then decide whether they want to go. Which would happen whether or
not there was a payment at the front.
* From reading about other tech events, they are seeing around a 50%
drop of outside of the US currently and they are seeing a drop 20-30%
drop of inside the US.
> On June 23, 2017 9:39:54 PM EDT, "Máirín Duffy"
<duffy(a)fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> There's also:
>>
>> 3) i *really* want to come to flock but i cannot afford it on my own
(US
>> is expensive, visas are expensive, maybe they are a student or
unemployed or
>> otherwise not of means) so i need funding help and part of the
reason im
>> proposing a talk is to better my funding chances but if i dont get
funding i
>> cant go and i dont want to pay for reg when i cant even go
>>
>> I think #3 is like 80% of the cases here at the least.
>>
>> Making people pay to register for something theyre not able to go to
seems
>> scammy to me.
>>
>> ~m
>>
>> On June 23, 2017 12:24:58 PM EDT, Josh Boyer
<jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 12:17 PM, Matthew Miller
>>> <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 04:57:01PM -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.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Maybe this is harsh, but my first reaction is that people who
aren't
>>>> interested in coming if their session proposal isn't accepted
have the
>>>> wrong motiviation for Flock anyway. I think we solve this simply
by
>>>> requiring registration to submit.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> The second case is probably more in line with your reaction. I'm
sure
>>> there are people that fall somewhere in between those two though.
>>>
>>> josh
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