| Re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Minutes from Today |
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David, I will look into this further (of course it's Friday night here in Portland now and these conference center people don't seem to work 24x7) but... But, before that happened, how much would the registration fee have to be increased? $20?Yes $20-$25. Seems the error was made in setting the price initially, so, how would similar such forgotten things normally be covered? I'd guess the EMO would go into "debt" and make it up next year? (by charging $40 additional). I think that should be plan A.That would be nice but seriously, I don't have the authority to suddenly spend $25k of the Foundation's money. Just like you, I have to get travel approval to get on an airplane for a few hundred dollars. The EclipseCon budget is approved by the Finance committee of the Board. We could go back to them and say "now we're going to spend $25k here instead of on that other thing", but that's not my call - that's up to Mike. Oh, and it wasn't "forgotten" - it was a deliberate decision by me. You could argue (you are arguing :-) that it was the wrong decision, but just to be clear: there was no forgetting. Or we could have less food (maybe no cookies in the afternoon) in exchange for power in the tutorials. I suppose. As plan B, I assume you've already played hardball with the conference organizers? ... telling them for example, if they don't offer it to you for a reasonable price of, say, $5000, then a) many people will bring their own and that could cause a safety hazard? and b) you'll be less likely to use their services next year? And, c) what if you offered to buy new power strips and hire your own electricians? Seems that could be done for $5000! Not that I would know!You mean the convention center, of course, as I'm the organizer :-) Anyway, (b) isn't going to happen because we use the same convention center every year and they know it and (c) isn't going to happen because they have an exclusive contract that prevents it and (a) might happen, but the real problem is that there aren't enough electrical drops. If you look at convention centers, they have these big plug boxes in the floor and on the wall and they bring in extra boxes to plug into those to make enough circuits for people to use. Not in all rooms, of course, but in the larger rooms where many of our tutorials are. - Bjorn --
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