[Inpycon] Everybody Pays Policy

atul jha koolhead17 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 26 08:15:40 CEST 2013


Hi,


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:36 AM, Noufal Ibrahim <noufal at nibrahim.net.in>wrote:

> atul jha <koolhead17 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
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> > Who & why was it decided to charge fees for volunteers and speakers?
> >
> > Is it because sponsorship money not sufficient? Is there any blog/mail
> > provides description/info about the overall expenditure of the event?
> >
> > If money is real issue please get a new sponsorship model in place which
> > handles entry fee payments for speakers and volunteers specifically.
>
> The main idea is that we don't want to dependent on sponsor money too
> much to take care of the conference. I don't think we're tight any more
> so other options to subsidise this are available.
>

Well then simply make it more welcoming & if a speaker or volunteers  wants
to pay for ticket let them do it else make it free for others. Why wasting
so much time on this?

>
> > When most of the volunteers are students & some speakers as well. Some
> > of them are coming from other part of country & planning stay/food on
> > their own. Can we not do best by giving them entry to the event?
>
> We can do better by giving them some kind of student scholarships as was
> brought up earlier.
>
>
> Well this is something different from entry ticket, the scholarship should
not be restricted to speakers & volunteer students.

Both the things are separate and needs to be addressed in specific way.

Are we going to give a student 800RS entry ticket for event and call it
scholarship?




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>
> --
> Cordially,
> Noufal
> http://nibrahim.net.in
>



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