The Python Software Foundation is the responsible legal entity and the buyer iirc.<br><br>mt<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/2/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Carl Karsten</b> <<a href="mailto:carl@personnelware.com">
carl@personnelware.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ted Pollari wrote:<br>> On Jan 2, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Carl Karsten wrote:
<br>><br>>> So far I have 600 attendees and $150 reg fee. which may be all<br>>> there is.<br>>> hoping to hear how many/how much $ can be committed to by whoever<br>>> it is that<br>>> will be committing.
<br>><br>> I'm not sure if I followed that completely, but I think you're asking<br>> if the Python Software Foundation or anyone else bankrolls PyCon<br>> beyond what registration fees cover, right?<br>
><br>> If so, the answer is, sorta... There are corporate sponsors, and<br>> looking at the 2006/2007 PyCon budget ( http://<br>> <a href="http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pYkW9LgX8G5Pd-GMmhgYPHg">spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pYkW9LgX8G5Pd-GMmhgYPHg
</a> ), the<br>> expected contribution from sponsors is ~30k and there'll be another<br>> ~2k from tutorials, though some tutorial expenses will come out of that.<br>><br>> As for attendance, I'd say we should use 450 people as our rough
<br>> number for budget purposes (and 600 as our minimum maximum for space<br>> purposes), and assume they're all registering at early-bird rates of<br>> $195 per person. This will underestimate the revenue as many people
<br>> do not jump in on the early-bird registration, but it may balance out<br>> if attendance for 2008 holds steady from 2006 (unlikely, but I tend<br>> to be conservative when it comes to budgets). So, call it ~ $250-
<br>> $260 per person in total budgeting. Check out the pycon budget,<br>> above and the following for some details of the room reservation<br>> pattern/numbers we're likely to see.<br>><br>><br>><br>
> For room-commitments -- numbers, dates/spread, here's the final info<br>> from 2006, from an email from Jeff Rush on the PyCon organizers list:<br>>> In the contract we had allowed for a maximum of 870 room-nights and
<br>>> we got<br>>> 955, 85 more than expected, To avoid a penalty we only had to book<br>>> 80% of<br>>> 870 or 696, which we exceeded by 259 room-nights.<br>>><br>>> Not bad!<br>>>
<br>>><br>>>> As you know today is the Cut Off Date for your negotiated<br>>>> sleeping room rate at our hotel. I did want to give you<br>>>> the final breakdown of reservations that were made at our
<br>>>> hotel.<br>>>><br>>> Sun Feb 19: 2 Rms Booked / 0 Rms Contracted<br>>> Mon Feb 20: 3 Rms Booked / 0 Rms Contracted<br>>> Tue Feb 21: 6 Rms Booked / 0 Rms Contracted<br>
>> Wed Feb 22: 79 Rms Booked / 10 Rms Contracted<br>>> Thu Feb 23: 201 Rms Booked / 250 Rms Contracted<br>>> Fri Feb 24: 212 Rms Booked/ 250 Rms Contracted<br>>> Sat Feb 25: 206 Rms Booked / 250 Rms Contracted
<br>>> Sun Feb 26: 103 Rms Booked / 25 Rms Contracted<br>>> Mon Feb 27: 56 Rms Booked / 25 Rms Contracted<br>>> Tue Feb 28: 44 Rms Booked / 25 Rms Contracted<br>>> Wed Mar 01: 33 Rms Booked / 10 Rms Contracted
<br>>> Thu Mar 02: 10 Rms Booked / 0 Rms Contracted<br>>><br>>> Total Number of Group Rooms Booked: 955<br>>> Total Number of Group Rooms Contracted: 870<br>>> *** Congratulations you have meet your contracted Attrition ***
<br>>><br>>> For anyone who makes reservations after the deadline, the contract<br>>> states<br>>> that *if* they have available rooms, they must offer them at the<br>>> conference<br>>> rate. However they are not required to *hold* room space for us
<br>>> anymore.<br>><br>><br>> For reference, the schedule was:<br>><br>> Wed Feb 22: Setup<br>> Thu Feb 23: Tutorials<br>> Fri Feb 24: Conference<br>> Sat Feb 25: Conference<br>> Sun Feb 26: Conference
<br>> Mon Feb 27: sprints<br>> Tue Feb 28: sprints<br>> Wed Mar 01: sprints<br>> Thu Mar 02: sprints<br>><br>><br><br> >> *** Congratulations you have meet your contracted Attrition ***<br><br>That implies that someone signed a contract. What I am looking for is 'Who will
<br>sign the contract this year?' and what are they willing to sign...<br><br>The numbers posted will be handy too.<br><br>Carl K<br>_______________________________________________<br>Chicago mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Chicago@python.org">
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