[Chicago] dropping the ball and all

[Michael Tobis]

The Python Software Foundation is the responsible legal entity and the buyer
iirc.

mt

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