Hi Charles,
The issue is if you pay registration fee and then your proposal is not accepted.
~m ----- charles profitt fedora@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.
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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