Thanks for your enthusiasm and recommendations, Devin! We're all for trimming the budget if it implies benefits to the community down the road (eg. a community chest of some kind). Our hope is that we may be able to obtain sponsorship/donations for swag -- t-shirts and bags certainly aren't must-haves. In developing the budget we purposefully high-balled some of the numbers a bit to ensure any unforeseen costs would be covered (extra taxes, gratuities, etc.). Any sponsorship dollars that are 'left over' after the event will be contributed to future coworking community initiatives.
We're looking to forward to collaborating with you too, and will be in touch with everyone when we have updates to share. Thanks! Anna [email protected] On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Devin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm so excited for this gathering. You have my gratitude for organizing > this and my team (we're NY based) would love to help you continue > organizing. > > I have some recommendations for the budget. Here's a basic summary for the > budget for those who haven't read it: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AtzlWLmY3Lb5dHM1Y1I3Uk03Q0FSWnYzTy1IaWVyc2c&hl=en&authkey=COXc27MP#gid=4 > > Income: $20k > $5k Registration Fee ($30/person) > $15k Sponsorships > > Expenses: 20k > $5k Marketing > $5k On-Site > $5k Food > $5k Drinks > > I think we could remove t-shirt and bags - currently a $2k marketing > expense - and instead encourage and promote people making and selling their > own designs. Then the expense turns into revenue. We can also put down a > $3600 guarantee for the bar and consider the rest income. > > With these and a few other tweaks we can reduce expenses by $5k and either > save that money or use it to launch a 'community chest' to fund coworking > community projects, which I think is something everyone wants. > > I added a sheet called Budget - Alt 1 to the spreadsheet. Everyone at > Sarapis looks forward to collaborating with you and the community to make > this event a resounding success. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<coworking%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
