Re: [nfsv4] Potential schedules for BakeAThons in 2011

[sfaibish <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:01:23 -0400, Thomas Haynes <[e-mail]>  
wrote:

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> On Oct 11, 2010, at 6:17 PM, Sorin Faibish wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:19:22 -0400, Thomas Haynes <[e-mail]>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> We have 3 or 4 people outside of those who have been vocal in the
>>> past about having the event in Paris. We even proposed that the
>>> BAT that was held in Ann Arbor be held in Paris this year. That never
>>> gained any real traction.
>> Just to be clear whoever organizes the event in Europe needs to have
>> enough budget to support it. It is not clear to me who will have the
>> budget in Prague or Hamburg? In Paris there is EMC that can have the  
>> budget.
>> This is why we thought of Paris in the first place as an alternative to  
>> Boston
>> in 2010. Due to the economy people voted for Boston. This is why we had  
>> it in
>> Boston.
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>
>
> You have a small sample size of attended BakeAThons. Breakfast, lunch,  
> excursion to
> a bar, t shirts, etc, are all niceties that we always do not have  
> present.
This was extra. I just refer to the costs associated with the testing.

>
> The budget has to be power, meeting room, network bandwidth, and setup  
> time.
This kind of expenses. I believe CITI budget for all these was $5K.

/Sorin

>
> The only one which might cost real money is network bandwidth. I.e., I  
> have been to
> several where that was the cost which hit the books.
>
>
>



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