On 03/18/2013 05:49 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 03:45:07PM -0700, Allison
Randal wrote:
Probably not - we can mine the data from past conferences to get a better
model for what percentage of attendees will be eating the cafeteria food at
any given time. (We'll want this anyway for purposes of giving estimated
headcounts to the cafeteria staff.)
Good idea.
Do we need to
include lodging rooms in the total base price? That
is, are we paying any fixed up-front amount for lodging, or is lodging
paid by attendees as they register (or once we decide if it's possible
to sponsor travel/lodging)?
I don't know that there's any fixed up-front price, but sponsored attendance
at DebConf includes both food and accomodation. So for the big picture of
"how much money does DebConf spend", this is very relevant.
I'll start a tab for projecting sponsored attendance. At the moment, I'm
assuming we'd start at 0 sponsored attendees, and expand as incoming
sponsorship increased beyond costs. Do people have a sense of an "ideal"
number of sponsored attendees? As in "If funding is available, ideally
we'd like to sponsor X number or Y percentage of attendees."
And, I'll start with:
- Accommodation: $28/person/day
- Food: $20/person/day
- Flight: $1000/person
Aiming for an approximate average on flight price, figuring US/Canada
flights could be as low as $300, while international flights could be
$2000 or higher. (Numbers from past years will be helpful in these
projections too.)
Allison