4 Oct
2011
4 Oct
'11
10:36 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 05:49:30PM +0200, Riccardo Losselli wrote:
I'm i the only one who feels weird to hear the proposal of "let them pay if they want to eat and drink" when in the end they are volunteering their work for us, and perhaps without them our business, if not the Internet as we know, wouldn't even exits? doh!
The food/drink issue is a red herring anyway, IMO. As far as I remember, every social event I've been at has always been sponsored by some company or the other. AFAIK that has not changed since I last went to a meeting. Lunch/coffee is most likely part of the conference bundles that hotels sell. rgds, Sascha Luck