FediForum, an online unconference for discussing the future of the Fediverse, 19-20 March (fediforum.org)
from rimu@piefed.social to fediverse@lemmy.world on 10 Feb 2024 03:44
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otter@lemmy.ca on 10 Feb 2024 04:10 collapse

Interesting

What does the money go towards, since it’s all online?

halm@leminal.space on 10 Feb 2024 09:51 collapse

The answer is one click away in their FAQ:

Why do you charge for attendance?

Several reasons:

  • Organizing conferences costs time and money, like many other things in the Fediverse. We believe the sooner the Fediverse finds a way to pay for itself that doesn’t depend on the heroic efforts of a small number of individuals, the better. We want to build something that is sustainable, and to do that, it needs to know how to pay for itself.
  • It aligns the objectives between organizers and attendees, and keeps us organizers focused on what you want out of the conference; as opposed to us pushing an agenda, or letting a sponsor undule influence the agenda.
  • In our long experience organizing conferences we have learned that people who pay for an event are much more likely to actually attend. Free-of-charge conferences often have more no-show’s then actual attendees.
donuts@lemmy.world on 04 Jun 2025 15:38 collapse

It doesn’t really answer the question where the money is going, does it? Only why it’s being charged.

Edit:

Revenue from ticket sales goes to: paying for our online venue (QiQo), various supporting web services and automation, human support and facilitation, various promotional activities (handouts, stickers at other events, direct promotion to potential attendees / software demo participants / session hosts, social media), website management, graphic design, the editing of session notes and the production of demo videos published after the event, accounting and other bureaucracy and more.