On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:06:12PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > In my understanding the professional fee was always intended to cover > the per person costs. These include their share of the fixed costs. The > numbers darst and hug presented as per person costs are the marginal > costs of an additional person per week. While this is a useful number > for internal calculations I don't think this is a reasonable basis for > any fee.
600 CHF is still quite a bit higher than actual costs (of course, this strongly depends on the number of people). However, historically, professional is bed+food costs for one week, not total_conf_cost / number_of_people. According to current predictions, one person-week costs approx 440 CHF, total_costs/400 person-weeks = 480 CHF. Of course, this goes up the fewer people we have. Here's an interesting historical tidbit: DC12 prof fee was 600 USD (about 600 CHF). Why? Because originally, there was a very expensive venue planned. Once we realized that was not financially viable (Spring 2012), we moved to UCA + some hotels, which we could get a good discount on. Venue changes aren't a sign of failure, or something bad, they are sometimes just what has to be done... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - pyke: up 36 days, 12:39 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
