On Fri, 2020-03-06 at 14:07 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > Jason, > > > Yes, I can confirm this from another smaller hotel-style conference > > I've been involved organizing on occasion. $600-$800 is required to > > break even without major sponsorship $$ for the ~100 people mark, > > and that is without the usual food and venue perks we see at > > plumbers/lsfmm. > > Yep. Our actual per-person cost for LSF/MM/BPF is in excess of $1K. > That limits who we can invite. Personally I absolutely hate the > invitation aspect and process. But we are very constrained wrt. how > many we can actually accommodate by the amount of funding we get. > Things appear to be better this year, but sponsor mergers and > acquisitions have been a major concern the past few years. To be a bit mercenary (hey, it's my job, I'm Plumbers treasurer this year) our sponsors are mostly the same companies. If we combine LSF/MM and Plumbers, I can't see too many of them stepping up to sponsor us twice, so we'll have a net loss of sponsor funding for the combined event as well. This is likely another argument for doing two separately sponsored events. James
