On tis, 2004-04-20 at 10:10 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > I've helped organise a similar conference in the past (linux.conf.au) > where this was the primary reason for the registration fees. We were > charging AU$550 for a professional registration, which is quite similar > to the fee set by the guadec organisers. I think Guadec is (or at least should be) very different from linux.conf.au (haven't been there though, just heard about it). To me Guadec is a meeting to get together and discuss the future development of GNOME. It's also (probably more important) a place to get together, share a few beers and get to know the persons behind the IRC nicks and email addresses. I can understand a fee if we can't get enough money to make it go break even but it has to be clear that this is the reason for the fee and not a way to milk the corporations of money. I really hope that this doesn't make companies such as Novell/Ximian or Red Hat to not send all of there GNOME hackers just because it'll cost too much. So in short, what are we paying for? Regards, Mikael Hallendal -- Imendio HB, http://www.imendio.com/
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