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Need-based scholarships for workshop fees #95

Open gaurav opened 5 years ago

gaurav commented 5 years ago

I wanted to open an issue to keep our discussion going on need-based scholarships for workshop fees. I couldn't find a previous discussion of this on https://carpentries.topicbox.com/, so it might be worth sending them an e-mail and see how other organizations have organized this.

ha0ye commented 5 years ago

In several other places that I'm familiar with (e.g. UCSD, UMN, UA), registration is free, or workshops charge a nominal fee that is reimbursed upon attendance (to ensure people actually show up). Funding streams in those places is more strongly bound to University positions -- e.g. library and other full-time staff are run the show in terms of planning, organizing, and teaching workshops. In contrast, our group runs almost entirely on volunteer effort - our job duties do not include doing UF Carpentries work (I think?).

stuckyb commented 5 years ago

As far as I know, none of us have jobs that include UF Carpentries work. Interesting that those places you mentioned routinely offer workshops with free (or refundable) registrations. Perhaps we could discuss if some of the money we get from our sponsors could be used for workshop expenses for some workshops (we'd have to think carefully about how that would work).

picardis commented 5 years ago

See #104 (now closed)

ha0ye commented 5 years ago

Include with workshop announcements an anonymous survey of how we can better serve the community better.

gaurav commented 5 years ago

I took a stab at adding this to the Organizing a Workshop wiki page. Feedback welcome!