On Sat, 22 Jun 2002, Simon Lyall wrote:
1. What is Standard vs Economy vs Budget? I see different prices but no explanation of what the difference is other than mention of Lunch.
"Budget" is intended as the as-cheap-as-we-can-make-it option for people who are paying their own way. It excludes all refreshments during the day: morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea. "Standard" is all inclusive, with lunch, teas, evening meals and entertainment.
2. What do the workshops usually cover, what is their format etc?
3. Everyone has to pay $85 to become a member?
Yes; I'm not entirely happy with this myself, but it boils down to three reasons: (1) to cover costs we would have to charge everyone almost all of the $85 anyway. (2) it would considerably complicate the society's finances and tax reporting to offer "services for a fee" to non-members; so much so that it would probably make it *more* expensive overall. In fact I can vouch that it would: at the moment the registrations are being managed by a volunteer; if they were to require filing for tax purposes she would decline to do them, and having them processed commercially would immediate push up the cost by at least $25/person. (3) this way you get to vote on how you want next year's conference to be run, assuming you enjoyed it enough to want to do it again. Actually, this reason I *am* happy with; the few of us working to get this show on the road are nearly going stir crazy by now -- if anyone is going to run it next year they'll need a strong group behind them.
3. I see things like "discount around 20%" before the 30th if we miss out on the Early Bird prices, what is the actual price then if we miss out on the first 50 discount?
The price is componentised: the 20% discount only applies to the $250 daily session rate. Of course, that rate is notional -- almost everyone can get a cheaper rate; the point is to push people into booking sooner so that we know what our numbers will be.
4. Actually how much does it cost if I only book for one day? I really need prices if we request money from management.
(1) If you're a speaker, nothing. (2) At the moment there are ultra-earlybird places left, so the price would be 2x $100 + $19.50 + $85 = $304.50. If anyone seriously has a problem with the price please come and talk to me: there is sponsorship available for students and other worthy causes.
Sorry but I couldn't find this stuff on the webpage, if I missed the URL please let me know.
Sorry, I've been remiss about posting a page with tabulated rates; I was assuming that everyone would use the price calculator on the registration page, however it turns out that the ECMAscript doesn't work on Netscape 4. Volunteers to fix this welcomed with open arms... If you don't mind the crude formatting, you can use our internal price schedule at http://www.uniforum.org.nz/registration.cgi?showpricetable=1. -Martin - To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog