Hi everyone: sounds like just setting up the Eventbrite on someone's personal card for a self-organized workshop is not unheard of. Long term I would like to have an account with the university but I'm not sure how possible that will be. Guess we'll find out :) Thank you for your advice and taking the time to give me it
David Nicholson, Ph.D. nickledave.github.io https://github.com/NickleDave Prinz lab <http://www.biology.emory.edu/research/Prinz/>, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA On Sun, Jul 15, 2018 at 10:05 PM, Belinda Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David > I am speaking as a local organiser here and not with my Carpentries hat > on. What I did locally was create an eventbrite that was linked to my bank > account as I managed all the bills for workshops. We have never had funding > support for workshops here at The University of Queensland so we had to > find the money to pay for room hire and catering. Once we planned a > workshop and got quotes for room hire and food, we would price the tickets > so that the ticket money raised would just cover those payments (and the > eventbrite fees) with nothing left over. That worked pretty well as our > workshops were always oversubscribed so I was never out of pocket. You > could charge a tiny bit more if you wanted to create a float for next time. > The benefit of eventbrite is that you can link to ticket sales through the > workshop website, manage a waitlist, manage all the emails to learners etc > - it really is useful. After the workshop, I would pay the venue via my > credit card as the eventbrite money would always be paid out before the > credit card was due. That might be a problem for students though who might > not want to do that. Our charges were $55 to $60 for the workshop and > people were generally happy to pay that. We could have provided less lavish > catering and charged a lot less for tickets but people really appreciated > getting hot snacks, cake, biscuits, and fruit, as well as tea, coffee and > juice twice a day so that was generally a good selling point and it stopped > people leaving to find food and being late back. > > Whatever works really ... > regards > Belinda > *The Carpentries <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest>* / discuss / > see discussions <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + > delivery > options <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups> Permalink > <https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf549d7b277e0fae5-M3ba9616e79e410a1c2cf4907> > ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf549d7b277e0fae5-M81bb534ca57a38f319cbe9ae Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups
