On 16 November 2015 at 19:06, Jon Stanley jonstanley@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Josh Boyer jwboyer@fedoraproject.org wrote:
It's not double edged. It's exactly how we say the conference funding works. We fund people coming to provide the content of the conference. Speakers first, then if there are funds left over, we fund non-speakers. Which, aside from the lower number of non-speaker registrations anyway, is why the majority of the conference is attended by speakers.
I think that when you say "we" fund, you mean the Council and the Premier Fedora Events budget. I think that Stephen was referring to something broader. Lots of people's $DAYJOB doesn't see the value of attending Flock (either as a speaker or not, actually) and forces them
Why do I feel like this is dejavu all over again? Didn't we have exactly the same threads for the last couple of FLOCK and FUDcons?
We need more interesting talks We need more speakers We need more people attending We need reasons for more people to attend We need to pay for more things We need to pay for better things. We need to pay for more people to attend We need to pay for better venues
And after a bunch of these emails, the 3 people who do a lot of the non-site specific work (and help the people with the site do other bits) have to work on the fact that 1) We don't have much time 2) We don't have much money 3) We don't have much people
Which doesn't fix any of the items above. So unless someone can really help with one of those 3 items... can we just skip the same thread this year?