I'm naturally keen to hear both sides of the argument. Presumably you regard increasing the cost of the tickets for non-speakers as an acceptable result of this policy?
regards Steve On Jul 31, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Leif Hedstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 7/30/12 11:26 AM, Nick Burch wrote: >>> >>> * Free tickets for all speakers? >> >> >> +1. Honestly, I think not providing free conference tickets for all speakers >> is a little weak. This should not include any training sessions of course. >> > > +1, I think it would be very poor show not to provide a free ticket to > speakers. I understand this is the PyCon model, and didn't just come > out of nowhere, but I don't support a conference that asks its > speakers to pay, and I think we need more discussion before we make an > executive decision that changes our long-established model this > drastically. > > N -- Steve Holden [email protected], Holden Web, LLC http://holdenweb.com/ Python classes (and much more) through the web http://oreillyschool.com/ Conferences and technical event management at http://theopenbastion.com/ Next: DjangoCon US Sep 6-8, Washington DC http://djangocon.us/
