[foss4g2014] Setting Conference Pricing

[Chris MacWhorter]

No, I was confusing metro with trimet.  The one with the light rail and buses is using OS GIS for their trip planner, so that was theory for a discount for passes over actual financial contribution, which may be difficult. 

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> On Feb 20, 2014, at 11:34 AM, Darrell Fuhriman <darrell at garnix.org> wrote:
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> 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…
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> I think part of it for me is the stupidly high cost of catering — it just annoys me. 
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> 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.”
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> Hmm.. maybe I spent too much time reading economics in grad school. :)
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> 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.
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> d.
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>> On Feb 20, 2014, at 11:14, Chris MacWhorter <cmacwhorter at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.  
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>> Sponsorship question: is metro able to sponsor?  If not, will metro consider in kind donations of transit passes?
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