On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:15 PM, Marc MERLIN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:marc@merlins.org" target="_blank">marc@merlins.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 09:47:19PM +1100, Joshua Hesketh wrote:<br>
> Yes these options are being discussed with the people and entities<br>
> involved. It is quite complicated. At this point we are at the very<br>
> least ensuring the Pia isn't personally out of pocket. We will continue<br>
> to explore other avenues of reasoning but the bottom line is that<br>
> contracts were signed.<br>
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</div>Right. I wasn't suggesting to default, but to appeal to him as a human<br>
being, which I'm hoping he is :)<br>
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If I ever asked that much money from a self funded conf without big pockets<br>
and they came back to me and told me they came up short, and appealed to<br>
me to reduce my fee in a way that I am still well off, I sure would give<br>
the conf a break.<br>
Putting it a different way, as an individual, I would look at him as a<br>
bad human being if given the full situation, his reply was "though, you<br>
signed, now you pay everything".<br></blockquote><div><br>Sorry, but you won't get an answer from Pia or the other organisers, because they are all bound by their contract to confidentiality.<br>Silvia.<br></div>
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