[foss4g2014] Setting Conference Pricing

[Darrell Fuhriman]

Yah, I totally agree on that front. Travel costs probably dwarf the actual cost of the conference for most attendees, and as conferences go, $700 for three days isn’t that expensive. But still, the lower we can keep the barriers the better…

I think part of it for me is the stupidly high cost of catering — it just annoys me. 

However, maybe we can use any data we can gather as a stick to beat the OCC without about their pricing. If we can confidently say “Our attendees only value catering at $X, so give us Y% discount, or we’ll just not do it at all.”

Hmm.. maybe I spent too much time reading economics in grad school. :)

I don’t think we’ve approached Metro yet. Trimet has already demurred (nothing specific to us, just general policy). I don’t know that Metro would get any particular discount with Trimet, but I could be wrong.

d.


On Feb 20, 2014, at 11:14, Chris MacWhorter <cmacwhorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree with the survey of the peeps;  some thoughts are that from a local viewpoint $200 seems significant,  but from traveling viewpoint $200 might be under 10% of the actual cost of attendance or under 5% with lost wages/productivity taken into account.  
> 
> Sponsorship question: is metro able to sponsor?  If not, will metro consider in kind donations of transit passes?
> 

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