[18214] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Host for NANOG 14 & modified NANOG Business Model (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Rishaw)
Tue Jun 30 18:04:43 1998
In-Reply-To: <19980630173707.A10556@puck.nether.net> from Jared Mauch at "Jun 30, 98 05:37:07 pm"
To: jared@puck.nether.net (Jared Mauch)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 16:53:14 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: jamie@dilbert.ais.net (James Rishaw)
Reply-To: jamie@ais.net
Jared Mauch wrote:
> The one thing you're probally forgetting is hotel costs.
>
> Rent enough space in a hotel to fit 500 people in.
Not that expensive.. especially when you tell them most of these 500 people
will be renting rooms there.
> You can't bring outside food into there, you need to use
> the hotel food. (Or you can, but not in large quantities), unless
> you're going to bus everyone somewhere else.
You can. Just gotta negotiate :)
> I'd be interested in seeing the numbers also, but not in a
> "where the hell are you spending my money" sort of fashion. these
> things have costs, how many hotel people were there to be our slaves?
> quite a few.
OK, 15 slaves @ $10/hr * 16 hours (2x8) = $2400, or $4.80 per attendee.
50 slaves @ $10/hr * 16 hours = $16.00 per attendee. That's one personal
assistant for every 10 people. :)
