Re: On future conferences

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:39:14AM -0400, Robert Bernier wrote:

> Increasing the number of conference goers makes it possible to
> defray costs directly from conference itself thus relying less upon
> the sponsors.

Well, maybe.  That's really a matter of income from the number of
attendees.

> Were you able to cover these issues from those other people who've
> run their own conferences?

Yes.  We looked at many models, and this was the one we came up with.
Other models might work differently.

A

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