| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: On future conferences |
| Date: | 2006-09-27 23:10:05 |
| Message-ID: | 451B04CD.2090704@commandprompt.com |
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>
> The economics of having a set of regional conferences changes most
> pointedly in that there is no longer the need to raise *nearly* as
> much money to cover travel expenses. If you're not spending $3000 USD
> on travel, that leaves a lot of money left over on the part of
> attendees to possibly even pay a bit more up front for a conference
> fee.
>
> It would be interesting to know what the aggregate travel budget for
> the Anniversary conference was (that is, what was spent by everyone on
> travel); I rather suspect that this amount exceeded the corporate
> sponsorships by a pretty hefty margin.
Well it is my understanding that the travel sponsorships made up about
50% of the entire conference budget and I know those travel sponsorships
would not have covered 100% of travel expenses except for may US based
people.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
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