According to: http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper
>>> The calendar year 2010 budget for arXiv is $400,000 arxiv can be augmented with open public discussion of articles (additional software and administration cost). We compare this with: Conference registration costs ($500-1000), up to about 1500 attendees, travel and hotel cost. (not counting the harm done to the planet) This is 1 conference, there 100s of them only in computer networking. Cheers, Pars On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Pars Mutaf <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >Dear researcher, >> > >> >A mediocre quality scientific conference costs ~1M dollars to the world >> >just for registration fees. >> >> A 200-attendants conference with fees of 500$ is 100k$ in registration >> fees. How do we get to 1M$? >> > > > Hi Francesco, > > 100k$ is already high compared to the perceived benefit but I am talking > about bigger > conferences (which still have low impact). > > With 1000 attendants (I saw even 1500) and $1000 we obtain 1M. This is > only the > registration fee. There is also travel (BTW today one of the petitioners > raised concerns > about the harm done to the environment i.e. carbon footprint by traveling) > > For statistics please see: > > http://www.cs.iit.edu/~xli/CS-Conference-Accept-Ratio.htm > > > >> >> -- >> Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.315.3058 (op.2111) >> ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 >> via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Fax: +39.050.315.2040 >> (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it >> > > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
