On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 09:36:36PM -0400, charles profitt wrote:
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...
We want to decouple community funding from speaking, particularly
because speaking is not supposed to be the highlight of the conference.
They are related but shouldn't be attached. We intentionally split out
the different costs, and speakers are welcome to ask for financial
assistance for the registration fee.
I know it's standard for that to be covered for conferences, but that's
usually also for conferences where the registration fee is a
significant amount of money (hundreds or thousands of dollars). In this
case, if the registration fee is a financial burden for *anyone* who
should be at Flock, we want to help regardless of what shape their
contribution takes.
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?
I don't think this is a special case.
If we are funding someone why would we not include the registration
fee
in that funding?
We want to get as many people there as possible. I know for example
SUSE's funding for community conferences is a flat 80%. We wanted to be
more flexible than that and possibly help people for whom the other 20%
is a big problem.
With a binary all-expenses-paid or nothing checkbox, maybe we help one
person a lot and someone else not at all. With this system, we might be
able to get both people to the conference. Or maybe even more than just
those two.
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader