<p dir="ltr">I've never worked with an organisation that would willingly pay for a ticket if there were free ones on the table, the ones often included in sponsorship deals are even used first.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Just the idea of splitting by those that 'can' expense it seems odd to me.</p>
<p dir="ltr">There must surely be some sort of other recognition?<br></p>
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Kind Regards,<br>
Dave Walker</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 Jul 2015 7:57 am, "Mark Atwood" <<a href="mailto:mark.atwood@hp.com">mark.atwood@hp.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div><div>As a suggestion re free / paid registration: have tiered tickets, like the Community Leadership Summit does.<br></div>
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<div>Having a free ticket vs a paid ticket would not grant more or less access or privileges at the event, but gives the opportunity for people who can expense a ticket to do so.<br></div>
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<div>On Tue, Jun 30, 2015, at 09:04, matt wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>+1 on the no booths rule.<br></div>
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<div>-1 on paid registration, I think we need to be mindful of the smaller openstack deployers, their voice is an important one, and their access to the larger operations teams is invaluable to them. I like the idea of local teams showing up because it's in the neighborhood and they don't need to hassle their budgeting managers too much for travel approval / expenses. This is more accessible currently than the summits for many operators. Let's keep it that way.<br></div>
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<div>-matt<br></div>
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