At the risk of prolonging this thread:
On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:43, Einar Stefferud wrote:
One answer is to set up some kind of "Hardship Case" program to which
hardship cases may submit an application for a special discounted
registration fee, citing their hardship situation.
I should be funded out of the registration fees paid by all the
non-hardhsip attendees.
I expect that very few people will admit that they are genuine
hardship, so the distributed burden on those who pay the full fee
will be negligible.
Seems reasonable, but I'd argue that the air fare and hotel costs dwarf
the meeting fees.
And, yes, it would help if the hardship cases were somehow identified
by badge insignia.
No it would not. You don't want to be marking people in this way if
their input is to be treated as equal to everyone else's.
-- Frank