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On 02/03/16 21:20, "Jeremy Stanley" <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:

>On 2016-03-03 01:07:15 +1100 (+1100), Tristan Goode wrote:
>[...]
>> It would be better to remove ALL the free passes and use the money
>> charged to expand the travel support program. That way the free
>> passes could go to those that apply for them demonstrating in
>> their application that they are a contributor, with no boundary on
>> the definition of contribution.
>
>I feel somewhat similarly. To me the free passes for developers has
>been primarily because we're using the same venue for the design
>summit as the conference, and want to make sure we increase the
>number of developers participating in the design sessions by
>lowering the cost for them as much as possible. Most of the
>developers I know don't actually attend the conference talks unless
>they're speakers/panelists, skip the keynotes because there's more
>productive things to get done during those times (they're recorded
>so you can watch them later after all) and view the expo hall as
>more of a curiosity than anything.
>
>With the proposed event split, it seems like it might be possible to
>explore other ways of improving/subsidizing our contributor
>community once its primary gathering is no longer conflated with an
>industry conference.

This may also bring more emphasis on the people who are sharing experiences at the summit.

User group representatives, people with talks approved, ops session moderators, cloud consumers …

Tim

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