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Dinner venues
by Stephen Quinney 04 Aug '15

04 Aug '15

I've been doing some research into possible dinner venues. There are lots of options, I've tried to restrict it those which are fairly close to the Informatics Forum and are also likely to be affordable. Here's a few thoughts of venues: The Hub - http://www.thehub-edinburgh.com/ Royal Society - https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/ Dovecot Studios - https://dovecotstudios.com/ Surgeons Hall - http://www.surgeonshall.com/ - likely to be very expensive Playfair Library - part of the university so cheaper but probably restricted to uni caterers I've contacted all of these for prices and menus and will visit the best. Kimball has previously visited The Hub and Doveot Studios when we looked for venues for the 2012 FLOSSUK conference. I think we liked them both at the time. In the end we chose The Caves - http://unusualvenuesedinburgh.com/ - which is incredible but the minimum required number is 60 which is likely to be too high for us. There are also a couple of restaurants which come highly recommended by other people in my school who have hosted conferences. The Cellar Door - http://www.thecellardooredinburgh.com/ - and Howies - http://www.howies.uk.com/waterloo-place-edinburgh/ - both do good Scottish food. I'll followup when I get more details. Stephen -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

> > Silver £500 > > Gold £900 > > Platinum £2000 > > Good point, lets talk pounds-sterling from here on out, and I think those prices are fine. Symas would go for the Platinum sponsorship at those rates. That's good to know, thanks. Could someone please dig out the 2013 sponsorship offer and send a summary of what was given for each level? We need to make some changes as the contribution for each level is now roughly half the 2013 value. Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Draft sponsorship page
by Andrew Findlay 31 Jul '15

31 Jul '15

http://ldapcon.org/2015/?page_id=101 I have not linked this into the site yet but it can be found by search. Corrections to me ASAP please as I plan to make it fully visible in a couple of days. Andrew -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | From Andrew Findlay, Skills 1st Ltd | | Consultant in large-scale systems, networks, and directory services | | http://www.skills-1st.co.uk/ +44 1628 782565 | -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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20 Jul '15

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Dinner venues
by Andrew Findlay 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

On 16 Jul 2015 4:23 pm, Stephen Quinney <squinney(a)inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > I've been doing some research into possible dinner venues. > I'll followup when I get more details. Great - many thanks for doing the research. I will look at those links when I get home - it is remarkably awkward on this phone... Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

On 16 Jul 2015 9:49 pm, Matthew Hardin <mhardin(a)symas.com> wrote: > > Works for me. In terms of hard numbers it seems the conference would be out price of the meals and the price of admission for however many free entry tickets were included. Subtracting the current proposed figures for those (I don’t have them at hand) what would be the net amount received for each level of sponsorship? I don't have the numbers either, but the starting point is the 2013 prices, which I think were around £200 per person. That does not give much net income from silver/gold packages as they stand, and we may yet need to increase the ticket price. Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 17 Jul '15

17 Jul '15

On 16 Jul 2015 10:16 pm, Gavin Henry <ghenry(a)suretec.co.uk> wrote: > I presume there will be only one Platinum, which Symas are taking. > Could we take a Gold level? I see no need to limit the number at each level, but we may need to do something about the 5-minute talk slot currently shown for Platinum if we get too many takers. > > Is it too late to submit a presentation? I'd like to do one on how > OpenLDAP powers SureVoIP The programme is already full to bursting point so we cannot consider any more talks unless someone drops out, sorry. What you could do is a poster as we will have potential to display lots of those and they can be quite large (up to about A0) Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 16 Jul '15

16 Jul '15

. On 15 Jul 2015 6:03 pm, Peter Gietz <peter.gietz(a)daasi.de> wrote: > > Hi, > > I did have a look at the numbers (Silver 1000 €, Gold 2000 €, Platinum > 4000 €). For so little numbers of participants, I thought that the > numbers should definitely not exceed these figures and may be some more > sponsors would come, if the prices would be cheaper. By mistake, I > thought that those were the final numbers, I already sent the filled > out sponsor form to administration(a)lists.ldapcon.org , going for silver. Where did that form come from? We have not set the rates yet, and I have no idea where that email address goes! Thanks for comments on the rates though. Andrew

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

On 15 Jul 2015 6:58 pm, Matthew Hardin <mhardin(a)symas.com> wrote: > My opinion is that the cost for a Platinum sponsorship was too high for the size of the conference. I also recall that there were no takers for Platinum last time, and we should factor that into this year’s sponsorship pricing. Agreed. > Platinum - 2,500 € > Gold - 1000 € > Silver - 500 € > > The lower-priced Silver tier would probably attract sponsors who felt that the previous cost for a Silver sponsorship was out of their reach. It’s also likely that, to the benefit of the conference, lower pricing will be attractive to more sponsors. Good point. We need to come up with a sensible package at each level to make this work. In 2013 about half the income came from sponsorship. One thing we can offer is space for commercial posters (I am planning to push the idea of technical posters quite hard for presenters and delegates so this follows nicely). > I could also see an upward adjustment of these figures by 250 € without too much harm: > > Platinum - 2,750 € > Gold - 1250 € > Silver - 750 € > > Thoughts? Bear in mind that the budget this year is in Pounds Sterling. I am quite happy to talk in Euros but we must remember that the Pound is quite strong at present so costs will look higher this time around. Our costs will be in Pounds so I think it best to price things in Pounds too. Today €1 is about £0.70 so your second suggestion comes out something like: Silver £500 Gold £900 Platinum £2000 I suspect we will have to charge VAT to UK sponsors, but that should not be an issue to VAT-registered entities. Andrew Sent from my pocket. May contain typos.

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Re: [LDAPCon 2015] Conference budget
by Andrew Findlay 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

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