Re: [Debconf-team] Minutes from today's meeting
"Margarita Manterola" <margamanterola@gmail.com> writes:
> Dealing with people that accepts sponsorship but then doesn't come:
>
> One point that has troubled us in the past is that some people sign up
> for sponsorship (travel, food and/or lodging) get it, and then don't
> show up. If it's only for travel, then it's money back, if it's food
> or lodging, we need to arrange with the hotel in order to get that
> money back else we lose it.
> We would like to be able to prevent these situations as much as
> possible. One of the ideas that came up is making people that sign up
> for sponsored stuff pay a small amount (~ 10 USD) through credit-card
> charge via SPI (can someone confirm this is possible?). This way we
> can have more certainty that they are coming. However, this would
> mean extra hassle for very little money.
> What do you think about it? Any other ideas?
What if people then pay by the food and hotel in this cases? Being
able to skip it if the debconf team accept the reason as being a good
one.
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