i did not participate in Fedora Marketing-, Orga-, Leadership-discussions since a while,
maybe it is time to start
bothering you all with my presence again ;)
2013/4/18 Ruth Suehle <rsuehle at
gmail.com
<
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/flock-planning>>
/We briefly discussed in the meeting today the possibility of
charging a
//small registration fee. The benefits include://
//Money (of course)
/
if this is the intenction, taking a *donation* from the participants will gain
you *more money*!
Here comes the question - *how will you handle the money and its legal status*? If people
should
sponsor, you need a non-profit entity - right? We saw how difficult this can be, which
caused the close down of
another Fedora NPO here in Europe. This would also apply to the fee´s that you want to
collect. Or do you
plan that Red Hat collects money from contributors for attending the event?
/- People are more likely to come even if they've paid just $5.
Crazy, but
//true. And knowing an actual number helps us *immensely* with planning./
Where does this "true" come from? Is there a proof?
/- We can offer free registration as a perk for speakers and
sponsors.//
//The question is, what is the right amount?/
The Focus on new/more/richer Sponsors has my +1 - a proven concept that
works around the world even for large conferences and has a tax
reduction benefit to the sponsor as well
Having a registration fee for all - i think the psychological barrier
that you but up even with the lowest amount towards the contributors
will be perceived as a violation of Fedora Project Values and outweighs
your listed benefits -
Charging non-contributors - i personally think if you try to separate
people from the choice of free participation in something it sends the
wrong message - we saw that people did not adopt
http://planet.fedoraproject.org/justfedora/ as example. (i never had
more comments on my blog than ever during i opposed to that idea ;)
peace and long life Joerg
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Joerg (kital) Simon
jsimon(a)fedoraproject.org
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JoergSimon
http://kitall.blogspot.com
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