Re: Questions about 2017 bids
by Robert Mayr
2016-09-21 23:13 GMT+02:00 Nick Bebout <nick(a)bebout.net>:
> September would make it hard to hold Flock at a lot of universities
> because that would be during fall classes. Summer would be better because
> there are usually significantly fewer classes going on, which would mean
> more room availability.
>
>
Sure, if you think about universities, but in Rochester we did Flock inside
the Hotel, and this was much appreciated by the attendees.
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Robert Mayr
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Questions about 2017 bids
by Máirín Duffy
Hi,
I'm working with a group of people to put together a bid for hosting
Flock 2017, but we have a few questions:
* What's the due date for bids?
* Are there restrictions on the days of the week the event can be on?
(We had an idea that if it's in a vacation area, flock could be during
the week to save on pricing, and attendees could stay and bring family
for a long weekend after. We got objections last time when the Cape Cod
proposal would potentially cover a long weekend; so allowing for
adjacent weekends to be used for personal vacation might help.)
* Are the restrictions on specific dates / months it has to be on? E.g.,
if there's significant cost savings in Sept, can that be considered?
* What kind of cost range should we be looking for the facility +
lodging to fall under? We realize a certain amount of the funding needs
to be reserved for travel costs, but do not have an understanding of the
ratio of facility:lodging:travel:food. Help us understand ballpark where
we should be trying to get bids to? Data from past Flocks would be
really helpful here.
Thanks!
~m
7 years, 2 months
Re: Questions about 2017 bids
by Paul W. Frields
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:42:00AM -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> And..... that wasn't supposed to go to the list, but here's yet another list
> with IMHO broken reply settings. Oh well!
I fixed the list settings to no longer munge reply-to. I think
whatever setting was there was probably a default, but if anyone has
an issue with the new setting, don't be afraid to say so.
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