On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, Keith Moore wrote:
On 08/16/2013 09:38 AM, Janet P Gunn wrote:
...I want it from
people who can't get approval for even a $100 expense, from people
who are between jobs, people from academia, and even from just plain
ordinary users rather than just vendors or big corps.
I agree.
The realities of internal politics/funding being what they are, it is
sometimes going to be just as hard to get $100 "remote" fee approved as it
as to get the whole f2f trip approved.
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.
As someone who couldn't justify the $3k+ to attend the meeting, and for
whom attending a meeting implies substantial lost revenue opportunities,
the $100 (or more) fee for first class remote participation would be
awesome.