[lir-wg] New question

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 10:22:01AM -0000, Neil J. McRae wrote:

Hi Neil,

> I suggest that this is one of the things that
> changes. These meetings should be self financing.

We have to be careful here. Suppose the calculations re: self-financing
are done on the basis of previous numbers attending meetings. Then the
price to attend the meeting would naturally rise. This will result in a
drop-off in numbers attending, which will mean the price rises again, etc.
Much better to do a phased introduction of this, if it's to be done.

Personally speaking I'm in favour of meeting attendance being as cheap
as possible "for the little guy" but I can understand the rationale
behind not desiring subvention of one class of attendees (or non-attendees)
by another.

Niall

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