[lustre-discuss] lustre-discuss Digest, Vol 193, Issue 26

[Steve L]

My opinion on the subject:

I think most of the people going to a physical conference is for the interaction with the speakers and peers. I guess if the organization can arrange the zoom calls with plenty of interactions among speakers and attendees, the fee is probably still justified.

Of course a free T-shirt or so will help too.

Steve
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   1. Re: LUG 2022 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! (Kilian Cavalotti)


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Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:13:59 -0700
From: Kilian Cavalotti <kilian.cavalotti.work at gmail.com>
To: Kirill Lozinskiy <KLozinskiy at lbl.gov>
Cc: lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
Subject: Re: [lustre-discuss] LUG 2022 REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!
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Hi Kirill,

Thanks for the invitation, the openness and transparency are very much
appreciated.

Now, for the issue at hand, I expect it will be quite hard for people to
justify the registration cost for a fully-virtual event, when the slides
and recording will be posted online and publicly available a few days later.

I don't know how past LUG attendees feel about this, but I'm concerned
charging users $175 for the privilege to attend LUG 2022 through Zoom may
not be exactly aligned with OpenSFS' missions of promoting Lustre usage,
increasing awareness and expanding its community.

Anyway, that's my $.02.

Cheers,
--
Kilian


On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 4:13 PM Kirill Lozinskiy via lustre-discuss <
lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> wrote:
>
> Kilian,
>
> Thank you for bringing this up and expressing your concerns!
>
> We typically provide an overview of the OpenSFS finances at the Annual
Members Meeting that takes place at LUG. We understand that there is
interest in going deeper into the annual budget, so the OpenSFS Board of
Directors would like to invite any interested OpenSFS Members and
Participants to attend a budget deepdive next week on Wednesday, April 27th
at 12:30 PM Pacific time. If you are interested in attending the Board Zoom
call, please let us know so we can send you the invite. You can email
admin at opensfs.org if you are interested in attending.
>
> Thank you for bringing this up, and we hope to see you next week!
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Kirill Lozinskiy
> OpenSFS Treasurer
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 3:17 PM Kilian Cavalotti via Execs <
execs at lists.opensfs.org> wrote:
>>
>> Dear OpenSFS,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 9:06 AM OpenSFS Administration via
>> lustre-discuss <lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org> wrote:
>>
>> > We?re excited to announce that registration for the Lustre User Group
(LUG) 2022 virtual conference is now open. REGISTER ONLINE.  General
registration is $175.
>>
>> So, just to clarify: the event is entirely virtual and yet
>> participants will be charged a $175 registration fee?
>> That seems a bit steep... :(
>>
>> What's the rationale here? Especially considering that registration
>> for both LUG 2021 and LUG Webinar Series in 2020 (both virtual events
>> as well) was free.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Kilian
>
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