Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 22:36:52 07/16/02
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Another thought... Regarding paying for some participants' airfare, I think that we should first consider people who 1. Live in North America and 2. Have a financial hardship of some kind that would prevent them from attending otherwise. For example, a kid who is in college or high school who doesn't have money, and has no means to save up a couple thousand dollars for airfare and a hotel room for a week, meals, other events, and so on. I think that especially if we only have a limited number of plane tickets that we should be looking for the most needy first. Perhaps if we have 5 free tickets, we could accept scholarship applications and have people state their financial situation, why they want to attend, provide info about their engine, why they are interested in computer chess, and so on. I think this would encourage those who are genuinely interested (and cannot afford it) to attend. I think that we need to plan on only having a handful of free trips, and we need a way to distribute them in a fair manner. I am in college, but I have a decent enough job that I could probably save up and afford it in a year's time without it breaking the bank, and certainly the grown adults will be able to save the money if they have their heart set on attending. Perhaps we could also have maybe give (assuming we had 5 tickets) 4 tickets based on need, and one ticket based on strength of the engine, to say, people under the age of X, where X is the age where we have enough people to hold a contest for the ticket. Of course, if X ends up being 30, then I say just give the ticket back to the need based people. Anyway, just more details that need to be hammered out :) Maybe someone can setup a mailing list for those interested so we can all be kept up to date throughout the year without having to check every last message on CCC? Russell
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