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Why is this a flexible goal? What will you do with the money if it doesn’t hit the $10K minimum needed for the venue?
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The $10k minimum needed for the venue was not something I was aware of when I set this up. I will reach out to the organizers and see if they can answer.
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There’s also fundraising going on outside of the Indiegogo in the form of sponsorships, so it’s very possible that the Indiegogo might not reach $10K but the sponsorships cover the gap.
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Curious, why are the organisers not running the fundraiser? Is there some legal/financial reasons that make it easier with this arrangement?
If you are in contact with the organisers, and they know about the fundraiser, it really sounds like you are an organiser, though in denial :-)
Looking here for some insight into the processes of bringing a conference to life at the early phases…that would be interesting; especially as I am over in rightpondia and ain’t going left coast anyway.
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I guess it would be the ‘in denial’ one :)
The organizers are definitely aware of the fundraiser and I coordinated with them to set it up.
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I assume this is referring to LambdaConf, but I think it’s a little unkind to other organizers to describe that as the “only” other FP conference. What about CUFP? ICFP? LambdaJam? Not to mention all of the language-specific conferences out there.
totally fair and thanks for pointing this out. I’ve updated the text.
Yeah, this is a mistake – I messaged the fundraiser in case she’s not watching this.
Oh boy. How did LambdaConf violate the Safe Space rules? Is this about how they refused to censor that NRx guy from giving a technical talk just because of his politics?
If you want to beat that horse, please do it somewhere else. It’s off-topic here.
It’s directly related to your comment. You said “I assume this is referring to LambdaConf”, and I’m not entirely sure what you are referring to. I’ve only heard of the one incident where people were complaining about the conference hosting some political outlier. If you think it’s off-topic, don’t bring it up.
I think you might have gotten a negative reaction because of how you phrased your response. Even though you likely did not mean it, it came off as trivializing something that was important to people as well as playing a dumb, the LambdaConf problem was very well publicized.