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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Host for NANOG 14 & modified NANOG Business Model (fwd)
Speaking for myself, nobody else: >From: "William B. Norton" <[email protected]> >We expect the new registration fee will increase from $150 (which covers >the percentages of the 3 NANOG staff) to between $250 and $300 which will >cover all catering and A/V costs. This will reduce the local host's >financial burden substantially and return the local host role to that of >providing local logistics support, the terminal room, and Internet >connectivity. Uhm. My aunt runs a catering business. *Good* weddings are $40 a plate. Two days, $80. Average three snickers bars ($1 each) and 6 cans of pop ($2) and you have a per-person food cost of $85. Shirt $15, youre at $100. This would mean, at 500 participants @ $250, the A/V cost is roughly $125,000.00 for two days? Is ARIN running the A/V dept now? *hides* (Kim we love ya) >We have also been fortunate enough to have companies loan us technology for >the event. For example, Bay has loaned routers and hubs and Cabletron has >loaned wireless equipment that folks liked so well. Many others have >contributed too. The point is, we expect this type of support to continue, >so the load on the local host will similarly be reduced by these generous >community contributions. Registration costs just went from $100 to $150, now they're going to $250? With a 250% increase in costs over less than a year, I'd like to see where this money goes.. or even better, costs of previous NANOGs. Not that I don't believe it, I just wonder. -- jamie rishaw (dal/efnet:gavroche) American Information Systems, Inc. Tel:312.425.7140, FAX:312.425.7240 "Could you only justify a Pepsi, but took a Coke anyway?" --> [email protected] to [email protected], after kimh took the last Coke at NANOG 13
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