> here are some other campuses which rent out for conferences. Emphasis on *rent*. I'll agree it's a good idea to check in with each of them. If we can get internal or external sponsorships early, that *rental* might not be a budget problem. However, I think a little out-of-the-box brainstorming is in order to identify sites that wouldn't start with a steep slice-of-the-action conference rental plan. Let's think CHEAP. Who would have the necessary infrastructure yet let us use their space for cost of the janitor and security overtime (or less)?
The MIT UserGroup program that we just signed up with for regular monthly meeting rooms has the right price structure -- can we leverage that into a 3-day? In recent years, MIT has had favorable (not quite free) room rates for the Saturday Seminars for GBC-ACM, but they stopped using MIT for catering. If the Computer Museum were still in town, I'd try to arrange something there, but they're not, and I don't have the contacts at MoS that I had had at TCM/B, alas. MoS hosts meetings for free if it's in there interest, but I haven't figured out how to spin this to them. Ditto the Clay Center. One place that might have a better negotiating stance than the other schools is UMass Boston, since they're public. I know the GBC-ACM did its seminars there for a while, so they rent out reasonably, if you have a faculty "sponsor" (advisor, not $$). Anyone know anyone at UMass Boston? U.Lowell, Framingham State and Salem State are also Public and have hosted meetings for other groups affordably, but they're a bit further out of the city. Bill _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
