[Foss4g2009] Workshops

[Cameron Shorter]

Tour Hosts,
Could you please comment on prices. It will be hard to justify going 
with Tour Hosts at twice the price. Are you able to reduce hire costs to 
one day?

Mark Leslie wrote:
> One of my items on our todo list has been to track down quotes for 
> workshop hardware.  I've been asking for the following:
>   144 - Workstations and monitors (17")
>   16  - 16 Port Ether switches + cabling
>   10  - Data projectors
>       - Delivery
>       - Installation (Monday Oct 19)
>       - Removal (Tuesday Oct 20)
>       - Image deployment on machines where possible
>
> This is not quite comparable to Tour Hosts, which most closely quotes 
> 200 workstations with monitors, switches, cabling, delivery, 
> installation and removal.
>
> The (rounded) results of the few responses I have are the following:
>     Tour Hosts $28,000 (200 machines, no image deployment)
>     Hire Intelligence $25,000 (no image deployment)
>     Microhire $14,000
>
> The key to this price discrepency is that Microhire is willing to 
> consider Monday through Tuesday as a single days hire.
>
> Does anybody know what insurance we intend to carry on this event and 
> whether these rentals will be covered by default?
>
> Next on my list is writing up a call for workshops for discussion.  
> I'm basically working from previous calls, but there are things that 
> will need to be updated.  First and foremost, what do we want to 
> encourage. 2007 asked for:
>     * Practical Introduction to ___________
>     * Interoperability
>     * NeoGeography and NovelGeography
>     * Using a Software Stack
>     * 3D Worlds
> Practical Introduction is always applicable, and usually the biggest 
> draw.  Interoperability is also always nice.  My preference is to kill 
> the other three and pick one more point to focus on.  Any thoughts?
>
> Scanning through the docs, I don't see any plan as to how we will be 
> accepting submissions.  I would expect setting up a word-doc or pdf 
> template and getting people to just email them in is fine, there 
> shouldn't be an unwieldy volume.  Unfortunately, since the workshop 
> pages of previous conferences seem to get retasked with descriptions 
> of the selected workshops, I don't actually have previous instructions 
> or templates.  Can anybody direct me to some?
>


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