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Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 10:22 AM
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Subject: re: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re:
Discountsrequiring all speakers to sign
that's three ways ...
:)
From: "Bjorn
Freeman-Benson" <bjorn.freeman-benson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:20 AM
To: "Kevin McGuire" <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: Discounts
requiring all speakers to sign
Kevin,
We understand your perspective and I'll answer this in two ways:
First, we've been doing the agreements this way for a while and haven't seen
any negative consequences. Thus I would say that the evidence does not support
your opinion.
Second, it is important from a legal perspective that we get people's
e-signatures before they speak. In the past, we've had difficulty with people
not signing their agreements. Peer pressure is one of the main mechanisms that
open source projects use to enforce their rules and thus my choice of peer
pressure in this case is consistent with other uses of peer pressure in
Eclipse-land.
Third, there's an easy solution for authors whose co-authors are more
corporately delayed: remove those other co-authors until their legal
departments can return a verdict and then re-add the co-authors at that time.
In the meantime, the less delayed co-authors will have signed and can use their
discount coupon to register.
- Bjorn
Kevin McGuire wrote:
I
strongly feel we should remove this restriction of all speakers signing before
one can register. One signature, one registration.
P.S. Nothing is preventing co-authors from
registering - the only constraint is registering at a discount/free. For long
talks, the need-all-signatures constraint only delays the free registration:
those who are paying can register as soon as they want.
