CC Chapman, one of the organizers of PodCamp Boston 3, asked yesterday how scholarships might work for PodCamp Boston. We’ve come up with a solution that will allow you, whether you’re an individual or organization, to offer scholarships for PodCamp Boston 3. Here’s how this will work.
First, the sponsoring person or group should email using the contact form on this site or podcampboston at gmail dot com. In the email, please detail:
- The TOTAL amount of the scholarship ($250, $500, etc.)
- The amount of an individual scholarship ($5, 50%, free ride)
- The email address to send a Google Checkout invoice
We’ll invoice you for the amount of the scholarship in total and provide you with a set number of “discount codes” similar to online coupons. If you sponsor $100 and request 20 scholarships, we’ll give you a discount code that will work 20 times for $5 off, and it’s up to you as the sponsor to determine how you want to hand those out.
We look forward to seeing some creative scholarships!
Next Steps:
May 1st, 2008 at 1:32 am
These are good ideas to supplement charging a fee. I hope you will post on a new message how you are going to go about distributing the scholarships. Some sort of mechanism that doesn’t drain more time for the volunteer organizers. I will be doing some thinking on this too.
June 29th, 2008 at 9:05 am
How do you go about requesting a scholarship? Or Discount Code?