Difference between revisions of "FOSS4GDiscount"

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Since 2006 in Lausane, the OSGeo foundation is organizing yearly the most important event in the world about Free and OpenSource Solutions for Geomatics (FOSS4G) gathering the community of major international experts from all over the world and amongst all the OSGeo communities. Obviously, the OSGeo Foundation is willing to have its Charter Member joining this event. So, to ease their venue the OSGeo Foundation is offering a special discount to them for registring to attend the FOSS4G event.
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Since 2006 in Lausanne, the OSGeo Foundation is organizing the most important event in the world about Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics (FOSS4G), gathering the community of major international experts from all over the world and amongst all of the OSGeo communities. Obviously, the OSGeo Foundation desires to have its Charter Members join this event; so, to ease their plight, the OSGeo Foundation is offering a special discount to Charter Members for registering to attend the annual FOSS4G event.
  
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The fees that a Charter member should pay to attend the FOSS4G event should not exceed the price fixed by the LOC for early bird registration. That means that, even if the deadline was passed already, OSGeo Charter Member will always benefits of the discount price.  
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The fees that a Charter Member should pay to attend the FOSS4G event should not exceed the price fixed by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for early bird registration. That means that, even if the deadline was passed already, OSGeo Charter Members will always benefit from the discounted early bird price.  
  
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To achieve this goal, the LOC will have to mention acceptation of this specific discount privilege for OSGeo Charter Member in their proposal (so, this proposal cannot be take into account before the proposal for 2016 foss4g organisation) and a way to benefit of such a discount. The simplest way is probably to provide a discount code only accessible to OSGeo Charter Members which are responsible to ask a dedicated person from the Board of Director to handle requests and sharing of the discount code. Note that each charter member is responsible to not share this code with others and the LOC should send an exhaustive list of all attendees which took benefit of this discount to the same person responsible for sharing the discount code. This way, the responsible person can valid that the discount were used only by charter member and there is no any other attendee which took benefit of it. In case somebody else will have used the discount code, then the LOC should decide between canceling the registration and asking for renewing it through the web form or asking for payment to the person which use the discount code without being an OSGeo Charter Member.
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To achieve this goal, future LOCs will have to mention accepting this specific discount privilege for OSGeo Charter Members in their hosting proposal (so, this proposal cannot be taken into account before the RFP for FOSS4G 2016). The LOC can then work with the OSGeo Secretary, who maintains the official contact list for OSGeo Charter Members.
  
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In case of losses caused by this discount privileges which can be prouven by the LOC to the Board of Director and valided by them. Then OSGeo may be reponsible to cover those losses by not exceeding 75% of the cost for OSGeo Charter Member which did not register in time for using the traditionnal early bird registration price.
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The OSGeo Foundation feels that Charter Members are the core of the organization, and deserve a thank you for their passionate and dedicated support.
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To simplify this dicount privilege application and to not disturbing too much the LOC, only OSGeo Charter Member which are one year old can take advantage of it. This way LOC know clearly before proposing to host the next FOSS4G the number of OSGeo Charter Members so of attendees which will potentially take advantages of this discount.
 

Latest revision as of 07:06, 2 August 2014

FOSS4G Discount for Charter Members (Draft Proposal)

Since 2006 in Lausanne, the OSGeo Foundation is organizing the most important event in the world about Free and Open Source Software for Geomatics (FOSS4G), gathering the community of major international experts from all over the world and amongst all of the OSGeo communities. Obviously, the OSGeo Foundation desires to have its Charter Members join this event; so, to ease their plight, the OSGeo Foundation is offering a special discount to Charter Members for registering to attend the annual FOSS4G event.

The fees that a Charter Member should pay to attend the FOSS4G event should not exceed the price fixed by the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for early bird registration. That means that, even if the deadline was passed already, OSGeo Charter Members will always benefit from the discounted early bird price.

To achieve this goal, future LOCs will have to mention accepting this specific discount privilege for OSGeo Charter Members in their hosting proposal (so, this proposal cannot be taken into account before the RFP for FOSS4G 2016). The LOC can then work with the OSGeo Secretary, who maintains the official contact list for OSGeo Charter Members.

The OSGeo Foundation feels that Charter Members are the core of the organization, and deserve a thank you for their passionate and dedicated support.

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