In article <022051D6-7CD3-43CA-BD3C-511F7EFAC9E2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >> One datapoint: The RIPE meeting which went "virtual" >in May had *record* attendance (and no fee). > >I'd be interested to see how the RIPE funding model compares to = >that of IETF.=20 RIPE's budget is on its web site: https://www.ripe.net/publications/docs/ripe-735 Most of their revenue is membership fees, €35M of a €37M budget. Meeting revenue was only budgeted at 235K so it wouldn't have been much of a stretch to forego it. This is totally different from the IETF which has no members, no membership fees, and gets a substantial fraction of its income from meeting fees. I would be as happy as anyone else to have all of our meetings be free to everyone but since the Money Faeries don't seem to be showering us with free cash, if someone proposes we do that, they need to explain how the budget will work. -- Regards, John Levine, johnl@xxxxxxxxx, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
