[Inpycon] Everybody Pays Policy

[Noufal Ibrahim]

atul jha <koolhead17 at gmail.com> writes:


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> Who & why was it decided to charge fees for volunteers and speakers?
>
> Is it because sponsorship money not sufficient? Is there any blog/mail
> provides description/info about the overall expenditure of the event?
>
> If money is real issue please get a new sponsorship model in place which
> handles entry fee payments for speakers and volunteers specifically.

The main idea is that we don't want to dependent on sponsor money too
much to take care of the conference. I don't think we're tight any more
so other options to subsidise this are available.

> When most of the volunteers are students & some speakers as well. Some
> of them are coming from other part of country & planning stay/food on
> their own. Can we not do best by giving them entry to the event?

We can do better by giving them some kind of student scholarships as was
brought up earlier. 


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Cordially,
Noufal
http://nibrahim.net.in