[penguicon-general] Creative Commons Discount for Program Participants

[Catherine Olanich Raymond]

On Saturday 06 September 2008 8:36:22 am Rachel Weisenfeld wrote:
> It's been my experience that congoers tend to share their feelings with
> presenters directly, whether solicited or not.  


True, but does that feedback get shared with Programming for future use?

> Adding a middle man will 
> just make way for less useful suggestions, if you ask me. 



> Also, why should 
> we deny compensation to good panelists based on a rating system which will
> be inevitably flawed?  There is no way to do it fairly. 

I dislike the idea of a rating system myself.  Not because of the fairness 
issue (all systems are imperfect) but because I believe that the idea that 
one has to compete just to get compensated for contributing will repel more 
people than it attracts.  

Penguicon is meant to be *fun*.  If it stops being fun, there will no longer 
be a point to doing it.  And any idea--for programming, or anything 
else--that seriously cuts into the "fun" factor should be taken out and shot.



-- 
Cathy Raymond <cathy at thyrsus.com>

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