[OSList] Fees for OS conferences?

[chunili2000 at yahoo.com]

Thank you Harrison and Gray.
It was very helpful!

Chuni


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 From: Harrison Owen <hhowen at verizon.net>
To: chunili2000 at yahoo.com; 'World wide Open Space Technology email list' <oslist at lists.openspacetech.org> 
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 2:15 PM
Subject: RE: [OSList] Fees for OS conferences?
 

Chuni – I think it depends totally on the client and the situation. When I do something like an OSONOS I simply attempt to cover costs. Most recently with the OSONOS by the Sea (well not that recently as that was 3 years ago) the fee was $25. That paid for space and coffee/donuts. A local church provided the space, and all meals and accommodations were handled by the individual participants. Actually we ran a considerable surplus. So with the surplus, I doubled the Church’s fee, as it was ridiculously low, and then sent $500 to the Access Queen. However if we were talking about a major corporation holding a serious working conference (2 ½ days) on a critical issue the money can and (I think) should be equally serious. Of course it is all coming out of a common corporate pot, but in a recent case I think it probably came out to $1500-2000 per participant. For whatever it is worth, I’ve never had an argument with anybody in terms of the value
 received. For the corporation the tab was probably close to $450,000, but considering what they achieved, and compared to how much it could have cost had they done it any other way (traditional committees over a year or two) – that price was bargain basement LOW. 
 
Any help?
 
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From:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org [mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of chunili2000 at yahoo.com
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 12:31 PM
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Subject: [OSList] Fees for OS conferences?
 
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.
 
ChuniLi
New Jersey
732-306-4002
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