+1 Terry

Shirley

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Terry Reese <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> >> Fiscal agents are ultimately responsible for the contracts they are
> >> going to be signing. In the case of this conference, that is easily
> well over $200K.
>
> I think that this is the first pertinent question for the community to
> decide.  The conference wasn't always this big, this extravagant, or this
> expensive.  And the costs of running a conference that hosts say 150-200
> people, is order of magnitude higher than our current size of 450-500.  It
> brings with it tradeoffs, and one of them has been the difficulty and
> exceptional risk organizations take on to run this event.  If as a
> community, there is an ongoing desire to have an annual mega conference,
> then it probably is definitely time to start looking for an organization
> that can provide the type of continuity needed to make the event easier to
> run and financially easier to manage.  And if we can't do that as a
> community, it's probably time to rethink our annual conference and scope it
> into an event that's more sustainable and attractive to a volunteer run
> community.
>
> --tr
>