Up North

First of all, thanks Owen for explaining the different levels a bit. It’s not however the actual cost that I have a problem with (even though I do think that 150€/gnome hacker in a GNOME related company is a bit high) but rather the attitude that since we already invested endless hours of our lives in the project we might as well invest a bunch of dollars as well.

For this year, since you have been able to establish a price I guess you have some number showing that this is the amount of money needed to bring in those that requested endorsement? Or is it just based on the the-more-we-get-the-more-we-can-get-here thinking?

I think it would be much more welcome if there was a budget produced and shown which clearly said that we want to raise this much money to be able to get those that requested aid to get there. We’ve raised this much now, please all help by making donations or sponsoring. It would also be nice to see how many where actually payed to get there due to the registration fees and how much where spent on other things (like flying in keynote speakers etc).

What else is that I find it funny that at least we (Imendio) has not been contacted regarding sponsoring and when I was looking at the site, now and a while back, I couldn’t find any information about these different sponsoring levels that seems to be there.

I don’t want to whine about supporting the foundation, this has nothing to do with this. I just feel that this is the totally wrong way of doing it in a community like GNOME.