On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 10:16:20AM +0000, Kimball Johnson wrote:
Sounds good - what do you want to provide in the way of food etc, any conference dinner?
We will need to provide lunch on each day, and also tea/coffee and buns for morning and afternoon breaks.
There should be a conference dinner in some form. Ideally this would be in an interesting venue.
We might consider conference bags or t-shirts.
We will be calling for full papers, but probably not printing the proceedings: last time the papers were given to attendees on USB memory sticks. It may be better to do web-based distribution: I am thinking of a password-protected web area where we give the attendees the password at registration and then open it to the world a few weeks after the conference.
Do you want me to do the budget?
That would be very helpful - yes please!
There is usually scope for some sponsorship: the 2013 event had 3 gold sponsors (€2000) and 4 silver sponsors (€1000) plus one press partner. http://ldapcon.org/ldapcon_2013_sponsoring.pdf
Thanks
Andrew