Hi, I'm working on increasing the accuracy of our attendee fee calculations. Jimmy had made http://rogue.kaplowitz.org/~jimmy/income-stream previously which I wasn't totally sure about, so I went with the literal meaning of the fields, and now am trying to make it more accurate.
A lot of these things may have historical precedent that I don't know, so it would be good to discuss this, so that everyone is on the same page with registration and payment Let's go category by category: Unsponsored (basic, no food or accom): - This always pays by day during DebConf. 53/night and 15/meal during DebConf - Can these DebCampers ever have a free DebCamp stay if they have a workplan? I'm assuming they can't. What if they signed up before the deadline? - for DebCamp, should they also pay actual costs, or should they pay the 650 even if they are just there for a few days? Only sponsored food: - Actual accommodation costs during DebConf - Zero food costs during DebConf - What about DebCamp ? free with workplan, otherwise 650/(free food,accom by day) or other? Only sponsored accommodations: - Zero accommodation costs during DebConf - Actual food costs during DebConf - What about DebCamp ? free with workplan, otherwise 650/(free food,accom by day) or other? Fully sponsored: - Zero accommodation costs during DebConf - Zero food costs during DebConf - With workplan, zero costs during DebCamp - Without workplan, $650 for DebCamp. What if it is a smaller number of days? Corporate and Professional: - $650/$1300 flat fees for DebConf, unlimited meals and nights. - Jimmy's logic implies anything beyond DebConf week gets charged a full 650 or 1300 - even one or two days of DebCamp Is this true irrespective of debcamp workplan? - What if people want, say, sponsored DebCamp but a prof or corporate registration for invoicing purposes? I have a feeling that once we say what the costs are, there will be a lot of questions from attendees, and some "what? I wasn't expecting that" or even some blatant wrongness leading to not as much money as we thought. Last year, I took people's mails asking for invoices, turned them into line items (I don't remember anything quite as complicated as it was here - it was either sponsored, prof, corp, or no accommodations), and all food was either included, or paid on-site. Since it will be hard to bill attendees for food beforehand (they won't know how many meals they will or won't want) I'll propose we bill in advance for just accom, and then handle food payments on-site again. If you have another idea, please let me know. This partly depends on what we set up with the caterer, of course. I propose a renewed effort to simplify our business logic... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 316 days, 2:15 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
