At the risk of prolonging this thread: On Mon, 2002-03-18 at 21:43, Einar Stefferud wrote: > One answer is to set up some kind of "Hardship Case" program to which > hardship cases may submit an application for a special discounted > registration fee, citing their hardship situation. > > I should be funded out of the registration fees paid by all the > non-hardhsip attendees. > > I expect that very few people will admit that they are genuine > hardship, so the distributed burden on those who pay the full fee > will be negligible. Seems reasonable, but I'd argue that the air fare and hotel costs dwarf the meeting fees. > > And, yes, it would help if the hardship cases were somehow identified > by badge insignia. No it would not. You don't want to be marking people in this way if their input is to be treated as equal to everyone else's. -- Frank