[OSGeo-Conf] Re: [Board] FOSS4G Pricing / Location

[venka.osgeo]

Arnulf Christl wrote:
> On Tue, October 16, 2007 20:25, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>> FOSS4G 2007 will return about 10% on revenues. If we specified a
>> budgeted return of 5% of revenue, that would be a start.

Specifying 10% sounds reasonable to me.
...
> And I like Tyler's proposal: "Change to "plan for a moderate positive
> return of $X while keeping ticket prices around $Y".  Then this puts
> the challenge back to the bidders to be creative in finding ways to
> be profitable.  I actually have a hunch that bidders would appreciate
> the guidance."
> 
> For spatial guidance we could say:
> $X 50k inside EU and NA (the developing world)

I would replace EU and NA with OECD and leave
the text in the brackets untouched :-)

> $X 10k in the rest of the world :-)

Sounds good to me.

> $Y 500 for the EU and NA

 > $Y 400 (US not Canadian) for the OECD Countries

> $Y 100k for the rest of the world

Sounds good to me.

Regards

Venka