On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 01:41:50PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > I've run a more detailed cost comparison for the Portland bid, > projecting for 200 attendees and 350 attendees separately, so it's > easier to see the base costs, and also incorporating some changes from > the discussion feedback. See the attached ODS file. (The cost per > attendee seems radically lower than previous years, but these are base > costs, and don't include incidentals like printing signs/badges and > t-shirts, video equipment shipping, or optional costs like travel > sponsorships.) Thanks, Allison! FWIW, looking this over I realize there was a mistake in the bid page: the $66/night listed for The Broadway was per-room, not per-person. I've fixed this now in the wiki page. I'm not sure how the totals are arrived on the Comparison page; the numbers look low to me even without including the venue and other non-per-person costs. Can you elaborate on the math here? For 200 people @ $20/day for food, $16,000 comes out to 4 days. But that covers only the days talks are running, and we probably need to figure one additional day of food to cover the arrival/departure days, as well as breakfast on the day trip day and some costs (TBD) for food on the day trip. The room total I can't reverse-engineer at all. $9840/$28 -> 351.43 person-nights. While not everyone who attends DebConf has sponsored accomodation costs, 351.43 person-nights @ 6 nights -> 58.57 people. So I'm not sure what's going on there. :-) And for consistency with https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/PriceComparison, the "total spent" should at least include the known venue costs. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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