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Re: Charging remote participants

2013-08-16 11:07:49
Hello,

On 8/16/13 11:56 AM, Keith Moore wrote:

As someone who just spent $3.5K out of pocket to show up in Berlin, I
have a hard time being sympathetic to someone who won't participate
because he has to spend $100 out of pocket.

Funny reading that under the light of the IETF worried about increasing
participation and diversity. There are places in the world where $100 is
all the disposable income an engineer *might* have. For months.

And, before the IETF would commit to take steps in that direction, it
would be interesting to see some numbers about how much money needs to
be invested in deploying and operating remote participation tools that
would actually make people feel they are getting value back for a $100
remote attendance fee.

I can already imagine the complain threads in the [XXattendees-remote]
list. Oh, the humanity!

~Carlos