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+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 >