[Chicago] rocken AV plan

[Carl Karsten]

I am holding the AV contract.  how sweet it is:

projectors, screens, wireless mics for everyone (a pair for each session fo the 
the audience questions - it will be easier to get a mic to a person than trying 
to get the person to the mic (we are squished) - one is for the person asking a 
question, the other will be on it's way to the next person - the session chair 
will get to figure out who is next.   if we are short on labor, we can hire a 
temp for each room to run mics.)

sound system, guys running the sound system, dueling podiums for the Lightning 
talks,

How much would you pay for all that stuff?

including 4 42" plasma dislays I thought would be nice for the OS scheadule 
stations, the cost was around 50k.  but it was missing some things, like no 
projectors on Saturday?!  and its a bit high.

So this morning we had a meeting at CTE.

we took off some things, like the CD and DVD recorders.  and added a few things.

new plan:

Every minute of pycon, including all 10 tutorials, will be video taped.  even 
the smaller tutorials will have a small sound system,  about the only thing we 
may not get is the tutorial attendees that don't use a mic to ask a question. 
If you see that happening, you have my permission to hit them with a stick.

I would like to remind everyone that in 2006 for 400 attendees, the price was 
around 20k.  2007's cost will never happen again.  I took a chance, and I got 
lucky. I will never take that chance again.

This also includes tax, labor and the 22% service charge,

$35,518.48

You can thank Larry for getting us way more equipment for way less money. 
fricken magic.

I got more goodies on the horizon, but at least the bare minim, plus a truck 
load of extras is nailed down.

Carl K