Re: [Debconf-team] Cancellation policy

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

Hi,

(also catching up on old mails...)

On Dienstag, 31. Juli 2012, Henning Sprang wrote:
> DebConf is - from my feeling and understanding of it - *not* a
> conference in the sense of a professional conference of any product
> developed and/or supported or driven by a company. It is a meeting for
> the volunteer developers and contributors that make Debian possible,
> organized by the same(or nearly) people in the same volunteer fashion,
> to keep budget low and that way allow also people who otherwise cannot
> afford it to join the meeting. It should be kept like that, IMHO.
> 
> Anybody who's joining the meeting for commercial/professional purposes
> is very much invited to do so, can even come without a fee when not
> using food and accomodation services(or do I get that wrong?), but has
> to accept that organization of all the procedures is made by
> volunteers and might therefore lack some of the features of
> superprofessional and commercial conferences(which cost easily about
> three times as much for a third of the timespan, without accomodation)
> and has to prepare at own budget and initiative if such eventual
> limitations don't fit the needs.
> 
> IMHO that also applies for refunds.The fee is so ridiculously low,
> anybody who might think over not to join, and being a halfway decent
> professional, making money with Debian related things, should easily
> be able to pay it as a donation in that rare case.

full ack. Also with what Gunnar said:

On Freitag, 3. August 2012, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> [...] Until we get a flow of cancellations big enough to worry
> (and I trust we won't!), I'd say the best policy is not to have one.

Yup.


cheers,
	Holger