[Inpycon] Everybody Pays Policy

[sankarshan]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandology at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://jessenoller.com/blog/2011/05/25/pycon-everybody-pays

this states:

"So, how does "everybody pays" play into this? In two ways. First, it
helps hedge our risk, institutionally speaking. PyCon had a good/bad
year in 2009 - good for the attendees, but horrendously bad
financially. We made various commitments in 2008 just as the markets
were peaking, and we lost a lot of money when everything went south.
Since then, it has been our budget policy to make sure that our
revenues will cover our hard costs even if there is a 15% dip in
attendance and a 35% dip in sponsorship.

Second, you may have guessed that the "everybody pays" policy allows
us to pad the financial aid budget. This has the direct benefit of
bringing more people to the conference, increasing the diversity of
people attending, getting a larger proportion of the community
together, etc."

> At this year's PyCon India, some speakers were upset that they have to pay
> for the conference. I think we should make this point very clear from the
> beginning.

In light of the above quote, why were speakers upset that they have to pay?


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