[penguicon-general] Creative Commons Discount for Program Participants

[Rachel Weisenfeld]

The thing I am liking about the "white paper" idea (which obviously need not
be paper, or white, at all) is that I have seen several people who simply
love Penguicon and want to be part of it put together one elaborate and
spectacular panel.  They could have easily submitted something ahead of time
because they were that prepared.  MedKat last year was a perfect example of
this.  She wasn't looking for a discount, but everyone who went LOVED her
panel.  She deserved something for that, she was a draw for new attendees.
We want to encourage that sort of programming, in my opinion, and I think
Matt's idea might just do that.


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Roxanne King <roxanne at narbat.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
>
> If that's what we're trying to solve, the preliminary solution is to
> identify those individuals and not have them be on panels anymore. "You
> didn't show up for half your panels, and you sucked on the panels you
> were on," is a fine reason for essentially firing them.
>
> To be proactive against new recruits behaving like this, I would say
> that the Programming Coordinator inform the new recruit that this sort
> of behavior - not showing up, not being prepared - will cause an unhappy
> situation, and it's best to be avoided.
>
> A long-time policy in fandom in general was to require non-guest
> panelists to pay for their membership up front, and then receive a
> refund if their performance met the necessary criteria, much like a
> gopher refund. You might want to investigate that option for new program
> participants that you don't know very well. The current situation where
> the program participants are all comp'ed ahead of time is relatively new.
>
> Then Penguicon should also make a commitment to issuing refund checks on
> Sunday afternoon. Many gophers and program participants can't really
> afford the con any other way.
>
> Returning to lurk status,
> Roxanne King
>
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