[OSDC Israel] Pricing for OSDC::Israel::2007

[Gabor Szabo]

On 6/17/06, Gaal Yahas <gaal at forum2.org> wrote:
> First, let's not call it company fee. This is the full fee; individuals
> are eligible for an individual discount.

That sounds good eve though that's just naming.

> Second, would having attendees sign a statement actively declaring they
> are eligible for the discount help? Not for legal reasons, but so that
> someone who's considering the shady business has a clear opportunity to
> see they're doing something wrong?

I am more into explaining further who is eligible for such discount.
"People who pay for themselfs and don't get a refund from a company."
Maybe, on the payment page we can write something like this:
"I am aware that this is a non-profit conference.
If I don't play nice I take money out of the pocket from fellow developers"


BTW Steph and Amir I did not mean your or similar cases.
I got particulary angry by one comany that asked me for discount because
they were about to send 13 ppl. I gave them some discount as I though it is
fair and then a couple of hours later I started to see ppl from that company
paying individual fees. I think 7 or 8 ppl.
I belive that the people themself were not ones who decided to do this but
their manager.


> > > If we can do that then a 6-8 week non-early period can work.
> > Do you mean that we should start chargin full price already 6-8 weeks before
> > as opposed to 4 weeks we had this year ?
>
> Look at it this way, we have to put the carrot in front of people so they
> are encouraged to do things in ways that help the already difficult
> organization. Late signups make adminning hard, so let's discount
> early signup. If (and that's entirely up to the conference organizers)
> there's a grace period in "late early" payments, it's really unfair to
> everybody if someone gets a cheap ticket two weeks before the conf! So
> yes, unless you enjoyed working on invoices days before the opening,
> let's move everything a bit and make breathing space. 6 weeks ahead is
> for sure not exaggerated. Maybe 8 is OK too. The excellent thing is we
> can get the word out in time.

I belive there will be still many people who come last minute as for various
objective reasons (work schedule etc) they don't know even 2-3 weeks
before if they can come or not. These are people mostly from companies
where - I belive and some of you confirmed that - the costlier part is the free
day not the entrance fee.

Maybe we can do something like this
Full price: 850 NIS for 3 days
Late bird: 650 NIS for 3 days (up till 1 week before the conference)
Early bird: 450 NIS for 3 days (up till 5 weeks before the conference)

1 day pass: ~ 50%?

Discounts for eligiable people:
Full Price: 850 NIS
Late bird: 290 NIS
Early bird: 190 NIS

1 day : ~ 50% discount

HaMakor members (if we get the sponsorship from HaMakor as we did in 2006)
    50 NIS discount.

That will bring the early bird price for one day for HaMakor members
to be ~ 45 NIS.


What do you think?

  Gabor