[Lcabid] Events Report for meeting 2009-07-11

[Shaun Nykvist]

Hi Russell

...nice idea for a theme (and point taken about it being eye candy - being a
presenter at a lot of conferences I tend to generally ignore the theme and
write about what I want as well or just make it fit the theme).

Cheers
Shaun


On 10/07/09 11:52 PM, "Russell Stuart" <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au> wrote:

> A few more quotes have come in:
> 
> Penguin Dinner:
> 
>   - Brisbane Convention Centre has now supplied figures for beverage
>     and AV.  Total is around $117 pp.
> 
>   - The Greek Club has come in at around $103 pp, however that does
>     not include wine.
> 
>   Summary - With wine they both look to be at around the $120 pp mark,
>             and this is what I will use as my final figure for
>             budgeting.  This is a *considerable* increase on last year.
> 
> 
> Professional Delegates Networking Session:
> 
>   - Enctice has supplied figures for catering.  I add them up to be
>     $50 pp, but there is lots of room for mistakes in the adding up.
> 
>   - Culinart has come in at $60 pp for catering.
> 
>   Summary - Allowing for the $4 pp the Museum charges, $60 pp seems
>             like a reasonable final figure.
> 
> 
> Speakers Dinner:
> 
>   No changes here as all quotes were in last time.
> 
>   Summary - The average of the two quotes was $120 pp.  This is
>             the figure I suggest we use for budgeting purposes.
> 
> 
> -- End of Report --
> 
> Regarding the budget spreadsheet, a couple of observations:
> 
> a.  It needs an income section.
> 
> b.  It needs an easy way to break the expenses into fixed costs and
>     costs that vary per person.
> 
> 
> Regarding Shaun's idea of using a theme for the Conference.  In my
> experience themes are rather like eye candy - they sound nice but have
> little impact on the conference itself.  The conference organisers may
> choose to highlight a few aspects of the conference over others, but for
> the most part the speakers talk about what interests them - not about
> the theme.  You might rightly gather as far as the conference goes, I
> can't see it making much difference.
> 
> However, the bid is all about eye candy, and if we tie the bid together
> using a central theme it sounds like a good idea to me.  The theme would
> be the central idea that sticks in your mind when you read Brisbane's
> bid - something that separates our bid from the others.
> 
> Some of the previous bids had themes of sorts, although they didn't call
> them that.  The Linux Chic thing was a theme - a concerted effort was
> made to get more females involved.  The idea of getting the community
> involved with an open day was another theme.  Since we seem to be
> heading down the path anyway, my suggestion for a theme would be to get
> the younger generation involved - the schools.  Give it a cute name -
> "Open Source for Open Minds" or something.
> 
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