On 17/01/15 10:37, Margarita Manterola wrote: > Hi! > > One of the things that we need to agree on before opening registration > is attendee categories and prices for each of this. > > The hostel has agreed to handle the money for us. So any registered > non-sponsored attendee will just arrive to the hostel on their arrival > day, and pay to the hostel the amount for their stay plus any > appliable conference fees. They will not need to pay in advance, and > they'll be able to pay by cash or card (we should ask which). > > The cost for lodging+food for one person, from Sat 15th till Sun 22nd > is EUR 270. > Or EUR 300 if they stay since Friday. > > For the conference fees, in the past years we've charged: > DC14: Professional: 200 USD, Corporate: 500 USD > DC13: Professional: 200 CHF, Corporate: 500 CHF > > Given that this is ON TOP of the price, I don't think going for the > same number in EUR is a good idea, i.e. I think asking Professionals > to pay a total of EUR 500 is going to deter people from paying the > fee... This is a hard exercise, we need to balance how much people are > willing to pay with how much we would like to receive. I propose we > lower the numbers a little, encouraging people to pay. > > My proposal is to have 5 categories: > > * Corporate: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + EUR 400 > * Professional: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) + EUR 150 > * Self-paid: lodging+food (charged by the hostel per day of stay) > * Semi-sponsored: EUR 150 > * Sponsored: EUR 0 > > Maybe we need nicer names for self-paid and semi-sponsored... Any ideas? >
* self-paid - non-sponsored? * do we need semi-sponsored? > I'd like to make self-paid the default when signing up, and have > information to attendees about the categories with a message > encouraging those who can pay to pay (something along the lines of: > "There's a limit to the amount of attendees that we can sponsor, > paying for your stay if you can afford it means other in need may get > to come"). > > Apart from this, I'd like to give some kind of recognition to anybody > that helps pay for DebConf. Some token of appreciation according to > the amount they gave. For semi-sponsred or self-paid it could be a > debian sticker with a value of 1 or 2 EUR. For prof and corp, it > could be something with a value of 5 EUR or so (a mug maybe?), plus > having their name and their company names in a webpage in the > website... > > What do you all think about this? Not sure if it's a good idea but maybe I'm missing something, I'd prefer not to have those kind of difference, we always encourage people to support DebConf by paying their food+accom and we always have a good response of regularly DebConf attendees. Regards, -- Norman García _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
