RE: [eclipse.org-eclipsecon-program-committee] Re: Discountsrequiring al

[Kevin McGuire <Kevin_McGuire@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Omg that's fantastic, it took me a second
to get it, brilliant.

Kevin

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There are 10 kinds of
people in the world, those who can count in binary and those who can’t.
 
“Knuckles” is ready
for the Holidays!
 
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that's three ways ...

:)

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From: "Bjorn Freeman-Benson"
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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.

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