[EuroPython] Payment, taxes, accounting, badges

[Guido van Rossum]

> That was a quote taken from the mailing list. I'd rather dump the
> early-bird registration altogether: if we manage to setup the
> ShareIT registration next week, we'll have 3 weeks of payments
> in May. The money from ShareIT for this month will be on the 
> P3B bank account by mid-June -- and that's all we have to
> finance upfront costs.

You need the early bird discount to encourage people to sign up early,
so that (a) you have some money for up front cost, and perhaps more
importantly (b) you have an idea of how registration goes.  If there's
no early bird discount, everybody will follow their natural
tendencies, which is to wait until the last moment.  (Also make sure
they understand that if they register and pay at the door it's even
more expensive -- I'd say EU 50 more again; otherwise you'll have
endless lines with walk-on registrants.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)