[Chapter-delegates] INET registration

[Veni Markovski]

Hi.

I guess I will bring somewhat different note here - and I beg your 
pardon if it is not according to the general good feelings on that topic.

I am really surprised to find out that the participation at INET for 
ISOC members is paid!

And is so expensive?

I see that the participation at the global chapter workshop is also 
included in the price. I was thinking to come for that one, and due to 
conflicting schedule, to miss the INET itself, but with the price tag, 
even if I didn't have conflict, I still would not like to take the 
chance and pay for participation so early, when it is not clear who will 
be the speakers.

ISOC could and should do much better, ESPECIALLY for its members. With a 
budget in the tens of millions of USD, it just doesn't make sense to 
charge for participation. Tell me that the participation fee is not 
because the management of the conference is being done outside of ISOC?

Also, has someone thought that the price difference between members of 
ISOC and non-members is CHF 250, and that means that in a way, ISOC is 
saying that while joining ISOC is free, it actually costs CHF 250? It is 
as if ISOC tells people that they could join ISOC for free, but in fact 
it offers them CHF 250 to do so...

Best,
Veni

On 1/13/2012 05:10, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> So, the INET for ISOC members is 350 CHF. If one adds two gala dinners
> (obviously not compulsory) it makes 580 CHF.
>
> For that amount of money I've had a free pass for expensive Swiss
> Railways valid for a whole month countrywide. And 50% discount for
> the remaining 11 months. You decide :)
>
> There are some small issues with the registration:
>
> * "staycation" question that really puzzled me.
>
> * Company name is required (well, the price explains it)
>
> * Business telephone number is required
>
> * Email confirmation has some accessibility issues, it is
>    light gray on the white background and is delivered only
>    in HTML (no text/plain). So in my browser (using popular
>    Gmail service here) it looks like this:
>
> http://akson.sgh.waw.pl/~saper/varia/inet2012-registration-confirmation.png
>
>    (Please note the message text is not highlighted)
>
>    "Show original" and "Message text garbled?" options in gmail
>    don't help since the display either Base64-encoded garbage or
>    HTML source garbage.
>
> Don't get me wrong - I'm happy to see this live. Maybe there
> is still a chance for some small adjustments though.
>
> //Marcin
>
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