[OSList] $ and unconferences

Steven Clift clift at e-democracy.org
Wed Oct 30 07:42:49 PDT 2013


We are experimenting with a $10 charge option to reduce no show
registrations (so we order the right amount of food).

We have a free lottery option which only kicks in if we go over capacity.
We also have scholarship and volunteer options to guarantee a ticket now.

See: http://citycampmn.org

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Daniel Mezick <dan at newtechusa.net> wrote:

>  I'm sure this is very true. In theory, speakers are not compensated for
> travel, lodging and so on. In theory this reduces costs.
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> I have had some people discuss with me this exact dynamic.
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> On 10/29/13 9:44 PM, Jean Richardson wrote:
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>  Someone asked me a very interesting question tonight about
> unconferences, and I thought I’d best bring it to this forum.  The question
> was are the staging of unconferences ever motivated by the desire to make
> money.  I’m not sure I’ve ever attended one that was—at least not a lot of
> money as in a profit-making model.  ****
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