In reply to Miroslav Glavic.

I'd love to let everyone in for *free*, or $20, or even $30. But the reality is, we are flying in four members of our distributed team from across the US for this event and that's not cheap, it's also not cheap to feed people real food.

I knew going into this event that I'd be investing a significant amount of my own money to make it happen, and that's OK with me. I knew that. I also know that the benefits of this event for the attendees will be big, and it will help us continue to grow our project with more well informed users and developers. It's also the first time our team will be together in one place, so there's a team building aspect at play too.

For the ticket price, it's $50 to get in. That's $30 more than a normal WordCamp, in fact it's $30 more than WordCamp DFW 2014 that's happening the next day across the highway from PodsCamp. How many sponsors does WordCamp itself have? Lots. How many sponsors does any WordCamp get right out of the gate, just for being a WordCamp? Lots.

PodsCamp is a niche camp, it's tough to get sponsors for something like that, especially when all we can afford to do is a camp for 30-40 people. I don't know if we'll sell all of our seats, I don't know if we'll get more sponsors before the big day. The cost is also a lot less than it should be, by *Lema standards*. Basically, the event will run at a loss, purely because I want to keep the ticket price as low as I can.

Now, take away the WordCamp price from your mind for a moment, and then think about what this camp will have:

- In-depth presentations about Pods and it's related projects
- One-on-one help and consulting from any of our 5 team members who will be at the event
- Real Texas BBQ for lunch, which you sadly won't find at many other WordCamps in the state

At first glance, that's not a ton of stuff going on, but consider it's running from 9:30am (and before, if you opt-in to arrive early [up to an hour] and chat with our team) all the way until 5pm, and that you can even stay late if you need any additional help -- that's not a bad price. Heck, most developers charge $50-$150 per hour of their time, so that's a bargain of a price for a $50 ticket.

Now, I'll make you a promise -- should we get enough sponsors to cover the event's budget, we'll give everyone $50 each on arrival, and refund the no-shows afterwards. Same thing if we get enough sponsors to cover most of what the tickets would pay for -- we could potentially hand everyone $30 and the net investment for everyone would match a $20 WordCamp ticket.

Again, this was never about making money. If it was, Pods itself wouldn't be free, we wouldn't offer as much support as we do for free, and PodsCamp tickets would cost between $125-$200 each.