On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:41:50PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote:
I've run a more detailed cost comparison for the
Portland bid,
projecting for 200 attendees and 350 attendees separately, so it's
easier to see the base costs, and also incorporating some changes from
the discussion feedback. See the attached ODS file. (The cost per
attendee seems radically lower than previous years, but these are base
costs, and don't include incidentals like printing signs/badges and
t-shirts, video equipment shipping, or optional costs like travel
sponsorships.)
Thanks, Allison!
FWIW, looking this over I realize there was a mistake in the bid page: the
$66/night listed for The Broadway was per-room, not per-person. I've fixed
this now in the wiki page.
I'm not sure how the totals are arrived on the Comparison page; the numbers
look low to me even without including the venue and other non-per-person
costs. Can you elaborate on the math here?
For 200 people @ $20/day for food, $16,000 comes out to 4 days. But that
covers only the days talks are running, and we probably need to figure one
additional day of food to cover the arrival/departure days, as well as
breakfast on the day trip day and some costs (TBD) for food on the day trip.
The room total I can't reverse-engineer at all. $9840/$28 -> 351.43
person-nights. While not everyone who attends DebConf has sponsored
accomodation costs, 351.43 person-nights @ 6 nights -> 58.57 people. So I'm
not sure what's going on there. :-)
And for consistency with
https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/PriceComparison, the
"total spent" should at least include the known venue costs.
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