Canadian Copy Camp
p2pnet.net News View:- While it’s great to see that the buzz about the CopyCamp unconference (See links from the Seen elsewhere aggregator) it’s unfortunately thus far about the pricing structure.
The concept is simple: Those who can afford to pay are asked to pay more in order to allow those who can’t afford to pay to attend at all.
Unfortunately, many people are glancing at the pricing structure, assuming they’d have to pay the full price of $700, and stop looking. Some people are being asked to pay $700, some early birds $495, some free, and some people will have additional expenses, such as travel, paid for.
I know I’ll only be able to attend if some of my expenses are dealt with in other ways: I’m hoping for a free spot and someone in Toronto to loan me a couch to sleep on while I’m there, as the cost of the bus tickets to get to Toronto and back and food is about what I can afford.
I have to wonder, however, where some of the sponsors are.
I keep hearing about Heritage Canada funding papers, and even a rumour they helped fund the anti-educational “Captain Copyright” site. But I haven’t heard if Heritage is a sponsor of this event. This is exactly the type of thing they should be funding: an event that seeks to bring a wide variety of creators together to try to talk and come to a better understanding of each other. I can’t think of an activity that’s more appropriate for Heritage Canada and Industry Canada to be putting money into to help creators get together to protect our collective interests.
My hope is that everyone interested will sign up to the site to get more information, and put their name in for a subsidy.
If you think you should be there, and the only thing that’s stopping you is the price, then please make sure you let the organizers know who you are! This way, as more funds become available, hopefully with sponsors coming forward for this important conference, people who have asked will be able to go.
Russell McOrmond – p2pnet contributing editor
[McOrmond is an independent author (software and non-software) who uses modern business models and licensing (Free/Libre and Open Source Software, Creative Commons). He's also the CLUE policy coordinator.]
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