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Hi,<br>
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many thanks Ian, I share your opinion. As long as we have affordable
regional/local events, we can (and should) have one big event per
year. That does not mean, that costs should raise and raise, but if
we keep the costs for the conference in the frame of 600-850 $, I
really do not see any problems. (And please compare our fees to any
other 3-day conferences ... ;-))<br>
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If I seperate the fees we had in Bonn, I can state that we spent
about 2/3 of the money for <br>
- conference venue (where is the place to host 800 - 1000 people?? -
Of course, an official conference venue)<br>
- food (in our case, the caterer was fixed with the venue)<br>
<br>
We could have saved 7-9% of the fees by not making the boat trip and
replace it with any party, where people even had to pay for their
food. Go there, be happy and forget it, because you joined hundreds
of these parties in your life. I think the most impressive event for
the participants (and also for those, just looking from outside) at
FOSS4G in Bonn was the Social Event on the boat. <br>
Impressive atmosphere.<br>
Impressive pictures.<br>
Personally, I will never forget this event and I am quite sure, that
most of those, who joined us, won't also.<br>
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<br>
Even if you are able to lower the fees under 550$ does not influence
the decision of 99% of the people whether to attend or not. <br>
<br>
Having an international event with this size definitely costs money
and if we as a community (including science, individuals,
developers, but also business) don't want to go back to Stone Age,
we need at least one representative event. If we do not host such an
event, others will do.<br>
For sure.<br>
<br>
<br>
Till<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 09.02.2017 um 16:24 schrieb Ian
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to FOSS4G-Bonn cost me 1500USD for air-tickets, 630USD<br>
(early bird Including gala dinner) for registration and
250USD<br>
(for 7 nights) for sharing a nice little house with Gerald
and<br>
Nick.<br>
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<div>Your airfare was 3 x the conference fee - that is where
you could of saved (maybe AreoFlot via Moscow and Havana?
or similarly quality airline) if you can find local
conferences that can be attended for $60 per person then
great but it's irrelevant to the cost of the global
meeting.</div>
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