Re: Diversity of attendees
"M.-A. Lemburg" <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.python.org.europe |
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| Organization | EuroPython Society (EPS) |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 17.04.2014 14:04, John Pinner wrote: > Filip, > > On 17 April 2014 12:39, Filip Kłębczyk <[email protected]> wrote: >> W dniu 17.04.2014 10:55, [email protected] pisze: >> > <snips> > >> I see financial aid as a similar method (to make attendees more diverse in >> terms of their wealth status or "geographical penalty"). But I think the >> better solution is to just work on lowering costs of the event (I think the >> biggest ones are catering and venue rent cost). That would result: >> 1. Reducing per attendee cost -> allows lower price of tickets >> 2. Lower price of tickets -> event more accessible to people regardless of >> wealth status >> 3. Lower price of tickets -> lower costs of financial aid per person >> 4. lower costs of financial aid per person -> more people that could receive >> financial aid or improving other areas of conference >> >> It's really simple logic. > > For once, Filip, I agree with you! Huzzah! The EPS board agrees on this as well. -- Marc-Andre Lemburg Director EuroPython Society http://www.europython-society.org/ _______________________________________________ EuroPython 2014 - July 21th-27th in Berlin EuroPython mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython