[Inpycon] Everybody Pays Policy

[atul jha]

Anand,


On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Anand B Pillai <
anandpillai at letterboxes.org> wrote:

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> On Thursday 26 September 2013 12:18 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> > atul jha <koolhead17 at gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Pycon is a community event not a event for profit.  Don`t
> >> blindly follow policies of other country things work differently
> >> here.
>
> I generally agree with this principle of not blindly following
> American policy here. I think I did mention it ealier when
> this discussion opened saying PSSI frames its own policies.
>
> We do need to frame local policies keeping in mind the Indian ethos.
>
> >
> > As somone who's been involved in organising this for a while, I'm
> > not "blindly" following anything. I genuinely think "everyone pays"
> > is a good idea regardless of who came up with it.
> >
> > Also, we're not looking to generate profit but an event does have
> > costs. We want to cover those in a way that allows us freedom to
> > conduct the event as we wish.
> >
> > To illustrate with an extreme case, if a sponsor said that they'd
> > pay us a crore for branding the conference with their name and
> > giving them the contact information of all the participation, we'd
> > be able to to give free entry to every delegate and do everything
> > in style but we'd say no.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> Its organizers responsibility to not select freeloaders.
>
> It is probably not a good idea to give free entry to volunteers.
> I kind of agree with the "Everybody pays" policy here.  Though
> I think volunteers should not pay the full price but should
> get some benefit of tiered pricing.
>
> I would rather suggest to reserve a certain section of early bird
> tickets for volunteers and co-ordinators instead. For example
> if the early bird ticket volume size is "N" it should be made
> rather N + V where V is the volunteer/co-ordinator population
> size. Keep this as a separate early bird category.
>
> We can identify volunteers using their email IDs early on
> and only allow those email addresses to book from this slot.
>
> This might be a way to avoid freeloaders.
>
> >
> > The devil is in the details.
> >
> > If you have concrete suggestions on how to identify and weed out
> > freeloaders without destroying the volunteer base, please post
> > them here. Or better yet, pick up the job of volunteer coordinator.
> > After all, advice is cheap.
> >
> >
> >>> How difficult is it to pay cheques to speakers in that case?
> >
> > Very very difficult. Like I said, the devil is in the details.
>
> A way to solve this would again be to ask speakers to pay up
> front and then refund the speakers who gave talks at the end of
> the conference. Again something not too easy with the details
> but possibly a way to identify speakers might be when they
> register - I think PyCon US does this - You can register
> as a regular attendee or a speaker.
>
> I think we need to tweak the "Everybody pays policy" to suit
> our local expectations.
>
> Is any takers for this?
I doubt.


> >
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
>
>
> - --
> Regards,
>
> - --Anand
>
> -
>
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