<div dir="ltr">At YAPC in Toronto the hotel I booked with gave me 1 free room for every 20 that I booked with my group. So that ended up being a pool of about 8 rooms I could comp people with. I don't have a firm memory of who I comped. Larry was one of them. I was comped as was I think 1 other organizing person -- I needed to be on call 24 hours a day, he was the head AV guy and lived about 70 miles outside of the city.<br>
<br>"Speakers of special interest & need" is a good rule for comping of hotel rooms or providing other kinds of help. These are people who go to a _lot_ of conferences (as a lot of people want to see them talk) but who aren't generally funded by another entity to do so. And their open source involvements often mean they have to crimp their own money-earning potential in order to serve their open source efforts more fully. (Allison, Audrey, Damian are prime examples.)<br>
<br>Perl is a community, which means it is communitarian. It's a good thing to help people who are members of the community who are in need (in the context of YAPC and no doubt other contexts too).<br><br>Hope this helps!<br>
<br>Cheers,<br> - Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 10:27 PM, Daniel J. Wright <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dan@dwright.org">Dan@dwright.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Who traditionally gets a special invite for YAPC?<br>
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I would assume Larry Wall and any keynotes. Anybody else?<br>
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What are the traditional accommodations / amenities provided?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Dan<br>
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