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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NANOG costs
> We used to pay $150 or so to attend NANOG conferences. > Why are we charged $300 now? Where is our $150,000+ > going? > > Inflation? That's certainly part of it. > Are we paying for the salaries and RIPE attendance of > MERIT employees, and to what tune? The fees cover salaries or parts of salaries for Merit people supporting the meetings and list. Plus we help defray expenses for non-Merit volunteers and the occasional speaker. > Conference space is free or greatly subsidized in > return for room blocks. Connectivity, terminal rooms > (who uses those anyway?), operational support, and > hardware are all no-cost items to MERIT. It's true that the hotel gives us some free stuff in exchange for booking a certain number of rooms, but our costs aren't zero - Merit covers food, A/V, and other expenses. > Continental breakfast costs $8k to sponsor. Morning > or afternoon break costs $6k. Lunch or dinner, $18k. > Beer and Gear is $6k per vendor, and has been booked > solid for the last ten NANOG conferences. That's a > lot of money right there. Depends on how many sponsors we get, and we still have breakfast and break openings for Toronto :) > So what are we actually paying for, the t-shirts? Are Yes. > we subsidizing other MERIT money losers? > > With IT and engineering budgets shrinking, and > unemployment on the rise, should MERIT be obligated to > share with us a more detailed financial accounting, > or is this none of our business? > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ >
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