[OSList] Fees for OS conferences?

[Graydancer]

We usually divide the total cost of expenses like the venue, lunch and my
travel, lodging, and facilitator's fee by the expected number of attendees,
then add on 25% to that amount to give us "cushion". This is not a terribly
profitable model - often they only break even, and a few times it has
*not* paid
for the venue, or even my fees - but it seems to keep it low enough that
people don't mind paying.

Usually we end up with a small profit, which we donate to various worthy
causes. No one has ever complained about the cost, even without
"professional" instructors and such.

Hope that helps,

Gray

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 9:30 AM, <chunili2000 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I'd like to find out if anyone has charged the attendees for coming to the
> OS convening.
> If so, how do you do it? On what basis do you determine the fees?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Chuni Li
> New Jersey
> 732-306-4002
>
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