RFC: DConf 2013

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/1/12 3:13 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote:
> On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 16:25:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> The project is not live, it will be within a few days. In the spirit
>> of having the community actively participate, I'm making this as
>> transparent as it gets. Please comment:
>>
>> http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dlang/1177501541?token=df96761a
>>
>> Your feedback and suggestions are welcome.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Nice, I like the raise money first approach. Make it possible for those
> unable to attend to contribute to its success. I don't see myself being
> able to make it, but I'll have to keep it in mind.

Thanks!

> I was going to write up a suggestion, but instead I'm going to write why
> I see the suggestion bad. I was going to suggest an unlimited tier for
> the expected ticket price. But that doesn't make sense as there will
> need to be a limit on attendees.

We could actually do that, as after breaking even on some expenses we 
could (at least in theory) scale up at a constant cost per attendee. But 
predicting the appropriate venue size will be difficult.


Andrei