Should we be more prescriptive around sponsor/large enterprise behavior?

[jdreed]

Sponsor organizations receive a limited number of free registrations, based on their sponsor level. A remote meeting does not incur all the travel costs normally borne by those organizations. Should we encourage organizations to donate some of their free registrations to a fee waiver program, if they can afford it? Alternatively, should we encourage them to apply those registrations to members of their communities that might not otherwise attend?

[richsalz]

Right now sponsors are allowed to defer their freebies until the next in-person meeting. perhaps they can be encouraged to convert all/some of them to fee waivers.

[mirjak]

I actually never understand these free registrations for sponsors. I mean it's still paying for these registrations but simply as part of a larger bunch of money. However, this really goes into questions about how sponsoring and financing works in general and therefore it's a question for the LLC and not the shmoo working group from my point of view. I explicitly was trying to focus on the principle here, while leaving any implementation details to the LLC.

[jlivingood]

I recommend keeping this out of scope for the document, in particular because it will constrain the flexibility to adapt sponsorship offers/deals. And whenever we ask 'should we be more prescriptive' I think the answer is no. ;-)

[mirjak]

Agreed. @jdreed can we close this issue?

[jdreed]

Closing.