-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 IMO, we want to encourage attendence, not discourage it. We definitely need to make it more obvious that we accept donations - we haven't done that for a very long time. But requiring a fee, I don't like.
Also, we need to do a better job at recruiting members (at events and otherwise). I'm relying on the pamphlet to lay out how to join, I think that'll make a huge difference. Ron On 2012-10-15 15:44, Michael Loney wrote: > As the topic has come up again, I will revisit some old ideas. > > The main goal with the outlined information is not to make money!! It is to > offer food and drink at events while breaking even on the event itself. > This gives us more incentive for people to come down while not costing us > too much. > > These are fees that only apply to non-members and student members, to serve > as an incentive to move up to a full membership. > > Hack-a-thons - no talks > > $5 entry, free can drink and 2 large slices of pizza at 6pm. > > > Hack-a-thons - minimum 3 talks > > $10 entry, same as above but also gives access to all talks during the > day. > > > Talks > > $2 a seat, if food is going to be offered then see the gaming > structure below. > > Events - other > > This is a tricky one, the idea would be to have other things going on > at the space, learn to solder workshop, programming class, not-a-movie > night etc. The cost would be largely variable on what was gong on. Members > would still have to pay any material costs to break even. > > > Gaming nights > > $5 entry, 2 free can drinks and 2 large slices of pizza at midpoint of > night. > > > ** Pizza price based on a large 3 topping pizza ( 12 slices cost ~$16 after > delivery ) or 1.50$ cost per person. > > For a hack-a-thon with 10 non-members our projected income would be $30.I > know this is not much but that $30 will cover pizza for the members > attending bringing us to a break even amount for the event. > > Gaming night would be a more lucrative idea as with Dungeons and Dragons > there is normally 3-4 non-members per group that chip in for food anyway. > > The big end goal is to populate our calendar with events that cost us a net > $0 dollars. If we offer more and more things then the people stopping by > are more interested in the membership and the entrance fees drop to $0 for > them. > > Feel free to change numbers around but I don't think $5 will deter someone > from cheap food while giving them something interesting to do. > > For the above to work we need all the members to start getting people > interested!! This means posters, flyers, word of mouth etc. > > G Mike > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlB8eL8ACgkQ2t2zxlt4g/TcDQCg0yoZ3jzK0/m11HhFszPkm1hC Br8AoMduLsQjjEvFbOPdwiV6z3OzdSzN =q5Gi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
