[yapc] yapc Digest, Vol 34, Issue 11
Ingy dot Net
ingy at ttul.org
Sun Jun 8 14:40:32 PDT 2008
On 08/06/08 17:29 -0400, Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Walt Mankowski <waltman at pobox.com> wrote:
> >> Just verifying that I understand as it's almost too good to be true!
> >
> > Yeah, that's pretty much the point of YAPC. :)
>
> Agreed, and the ability of the organizers to do this gets more
> impressive every year. But that does make me think: everything in the
> world is going up in price except YAPC. Maybe the $100 price is
It hasn't always been $100. I think it started around $40 and has
steadily gone up.
> getting to be a bit arbitrary at this point. I know I wouldn't mind
> if the price went up a few dollars in order to ensure the best
> possible conference or take some pressure off the organizers. I
> wouldn't even mind if it just went up 4% or so every year to keep up
> with inflation on the price of coffee and air conditioning.
>
> Just something to think about for future conferences. And to all the
> hard-working penny pinchers who kept the price so low the last few
> years: respect.
>
> - Perrin
> _______________________________________________
> yapc mailing list
> yapc at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/yapc
More information about the yapc
mailing list