Re: Re: Bang!Linux 2001 March 05-07 a rip off ? -The real facts

[Nagendra <ewiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for the info and filling in all blanks which we were wondering...

All we were asking was to reduce the price selectively and not that
everybody should pay less, as paying 9.5K a delegate of a linux company
is nothing(ex: a guy from linuxsol/exocore/freeos/etc) but it really
hurts the individual developers and students who are/will be the most
interested and knowledgeable participants(ex : think of a person getting
paid around 20K/m giving away 3 days of leave + 50% of his monthly pay
for the conf and that too he is not a commercial linux developer
finally).

Anyway I think I will attend it at this level on one of the three days
thanks to the cost reduction.

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Nagendra 

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jf_wroxindia wrote:
> 
> Wow...Open Source...conferences...stress.
> I've got to interrupt on this thread just to inject some facts
> Firstly, BangLinux this year *was* expensive. Last year, I had (correction,
> my CEO) to write cheque for USD$70k+ to dig out the costs of
> BangLinux2000. With the plan for this year ...we simply had to put prices
> up to cover our - -ses. Well, since then, I've had a heap of LUG guys and
> others saying that it's too steep. So, in the past 10 days I have been
> around the sponsors once more, and got some new people into the
> bargain and upset them all by pleading poverty and bombing their mobiles
> every morning. That, together with more cash from my CEO means I can
> get the price down to something more digestible. You'll see
> announcements going out on the newsletter today and changes on the
> banglinux.com website. Prices are now 2250 for day, 5,400 for the 3
> days. I don't think there's any juice left in budgets to go further ...if we
> do
> make a few paise , at that new rate, then rest assured I'll donate it to the
> Earthquake fund or to a deserving Open Source project.
> 
> BangLinux doesn't make profits (that'll be the day :-)  it was started by us
> to inject a different focus into the nascent Indian Open Source community,
> get a bit of Wrox publicity and generally get the ball rolling (with help
> from,
> the then healthy, Suse) I want everyone to realise that it should be as
> much about other Open Source efforts (PHP,GNOME etc) as the OS ...
> and, also, that it starts to address Linux usage in active businesses as
> well as in Universities etc.
> 
> As usual, the fees from other Exhibitors means we can give a free booth
> to LUG(s). BLUG always end up hosting ...so it would be good if
> Chennai/Mysore and I hope Puna could chock in with some show of
> bodies this time around.
> 
> In answer to a few points:
> 1. If anyone can genuinely get an all-in break in Goa for Rs9500 - give me
>  the name of the agent. My kids don't get much seaside in Bangalore
> 2. >STUPID M$ like corporate promo
>      It's not that, I think that's plain ...if I could get Bill to pay the
> entry fee for
> everyone, I would though.
> 3. >mails from Linux businesses to Linux fans
>      I don't control the politics of who sends the to best list etc. etc. I
> just bust
> my - - - - - trying to get a good thing flying. If anyone wants to encourage
> attendance in a positive way - and can do it better, then please do so.
> 
> That's my 2 paise-worth. The gig is on, the arguments will fly, the speakers
>  will speak, the lunch will be better. I hope some of the people on this
> thread come along and give me their opinion personally on how I should
> do things in the future.
> John Franklin - GM, WroxIndia
> 
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