[penguicon-general] Creative Commons Discount for Program Participants

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On Thursday 04 September 2008 3:36:07 pm chuck child wrote:
> From my current understanding, the problem we are trying to solve is this:
> We get a goodly number of people who sign up for four panels, prepare not a
> whit, and don't really have any enthusiasm about the panels they are on,
> simply to get the discount.    Some of those don't even bother to show up
> to the panels they are supposed to present.

That's news to me, but I haven't been running programming so I'll have to take 
your word for it.

>
> As for what we do with these papers. . . Well, we are working hard to
> become a charitable institution, with an educational scope, and hopefully
> without quashing any of the fun we already have.   It seems to me that this
> step would allow us to collect, and present to the world at large, the same
> type of information we are presenting at our panels, thus broadening our
> scope and effectiveness, without greatly affecting the convention itself.

I figured that we'd at least put up any papers worth sharing on the 
website....


-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>

"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand."
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