Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 12:31:24 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: ingrid@cityscope.net Cc: Bill Swingle <bill@cdrom.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDCon '99 Message-ID: <10849.928697484@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Jun 1999 04:48:55 CDT." <375A4407.75F320D5@cityscope.net>
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> Only thing I see right now is that the price of a convention for people > used to getting their software FREE, is a bit high. The hotel is high, the > booths are high, the tables are high, . My personal opinion is make it > reasonable for ANYONE to attend with an interest in FreeBSD. You'll get more > people and exposure. Isn't that what we want guys? Welcome to the real world. :( Hotels are expensive, convention space is expensive, it's all expensive. Believe me, we worked like crazy to get the room and registration fees as low as possible but unless you want us all to go way into the red just putting this event together (thus assuring that we're never able to hold another such event again), it's just going to cost what it costs. Speakers need to be flown out the core team needs to have their costs subsidized so that they can all show up at all, none of this is free - in fact, it's extremely expensive. The hotel also extracts its own pound of flesh since they're in this game to make money, not to help us promote our operating system. :-( We're also actively seeking sponsors in an attempt to defray costs, but that's only going to go so far since people handing you free money in a sack are far and few between, and even with their help the costs are still very high and won't be reduced all that much. Like I said, welcome to the real world. :( > This conference doesn't have a track record yet, on how many people will be > there, etc.. right? Correct, so we have to assume the worst in terms of how much the registration fees will help us. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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