Re: [Debconf-team] professional and corporate numbers from previous years

[Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au>]

On 06/11/12 16:40, Ana Guerrero wrote:

>> - happily choose to become paying attendees as we closed sponsored 
>> attendence after reaching X applications (because we might choose this 
>> as our way to deal with not enough incoming sponsorship money)
> 
> This would be terribly sad and unfair.


This would undermine the connection between merit and sponsorship and
make DebConf into something of a lucky dip (digital archery[1] perhaps?)

If it really is so unrealistic to aspire to the inclusive nature of
previous DebConfs, then shouldn't we just admit that this has all just
been a big mistake and go back to the drawing board?



1.
http://www.itworld.com/internet/302772/icann-replace-digital-archery-program-gtld-domain-raffle