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Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Fri Sep 2 11:56:15 2011

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From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 11:55:31 -0400
To: jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Two comments here:

In the past a human would review and refund speakers if they paid.=20

A nominal co-pay may be appropriate, even if it's just $10. Students qualify=
 for lower rates last I recall as well. We are talking about a small number o=
f people here, at most 1-2 per conference I suspect based on historical chat=
s.=20

Jared Mauch

On Sep 2, 2011, at 11:27 AM, jim deleskie <deleskie@gmail.com> wrote:

> If a
> members company is willing to pay anyway, then people always have the
> option of not accepting the free entrance.  As for people 'hardship'
> cases, how ever you want to define it, there is no revenue loss here
> as they would be unlikely so spend $ to attend anyway if they had to
> pay.


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