[EuroPython] government money, socialism et al.

[Martijn Faassen]

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> I don't think we can commission talks (I only know these under
> the name "invited talks" or "key notes"), simple because we can't
> offer anything much in return.

In general I don't think we have to worry about getting enough talks
anyway. Well known Pythoneers are coming to us by themselves offering
to do talks. In other cases, I just sent a single mail to someone and 
they were quite willing to do talks. 

This may be different on the business track, but even there I don't think
we've got to worry too much either..

> > (Actually sometimes you commission papers for them
> > as well, but let's not discuss _this_ here and now.)  Free
> > accomodation and conference entry is all we can offer, correct?
> 
> I'm not even sure about the free accomodation part -- it all
> depends on the budget.

Right, free entrance we can discuss or alternatively a conference rate
cut (IPC didn't even do that and still gets speakers though, but I
suggest we do at the least a rate cut for speakers).

Accommodation depends entirely on the budget, or possibly on whether
the locals want to put up with them. :)

Regards,

Martijn