[TYPO3] T3CON07 pricing and people from low payed countries..

[virgil huston]

I would donate something to help fund a scholarship, I am sure others would,
too. For someone from Ecuador, this would be a very expensive trip all
round.

Virgil Huston

On 7/7/07, Uschi Renziehausen <typo3news at otherone.de> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> if there is one thing about T3, it is it's huge international community
> and I think, Ries is right: The price for T3CON07 is far to high for
> people coming from countries with low wages, and it is important that
> they are 'enabled to communicate'.
>
> There is a special rate for students, so why not for those ppl. Perhaps
> there could be a special funding for that? I would be inspired to share
> and give my 5 cents, and I guess there will be a lot more people.
>
> Regards, Uschi
>
> ries van Twisk wrote:
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I am sure this is not the right list but I am looking for the
> > people that organizes T3CON07.
> >
> > I know at least one guy/girl (this doesn't apply for me)
> > that really want's to go to T3CON07.
> >
> > However since she is from Ecuador he/she cannot effort the huge western
> > European prices shown here : http://t3con07.typo3.org/visitors.html
> >
> > As most of you people know there are really countries (like ecuador)
> > where hourly rates for professional people can be as low as $5/hour.
> > And if these people need to pay the amount of money as shown
> > on the price list they rather go to amsterdam and drink a beer then
> > go to T3CON07. Also don't forget that there employers will NOT pay
> > anything for them...
> >
> > So what I am asking is:
> >
> > 1) Who are the people I can talk to about this issue for this person
> > specificly
> > and hopefully for people from low payed countries. We DO need to do
> > something for them!
> > We do NEED these people to T3CONXX !!!
> >
> > Especially in the spirit of sharing information on a open source
> project,
> > I do think it's more then fair for people out of these countries to give
> > a huge discount of at least 75-85%. Or may be depending on some salary
> > standard per country?
> >
> > Don't forget,  in europe average freelance/company rate is at least
> > 50-100euro/hour,
> > in countries like this (Ecuador) and many more countries
> > you can divide that by 5-10 or more. So I would like to see for these
> > people
> > the entry rate divided by anything that is reasonable.
> >
> > I am NOT asking this for myself ,
> > if I had the time I would go and pay the full fee.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Ries van Twisk
> > Ecuador
> >
> >
> >
> >
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