GAFilk actually follows the "easy convention model" of:
- take money from members - give money to airlines - give money to hotel - give money to grocery stores - marvel at shiny new penny still in cash bag at end of giving money away
Which is much better than the "oopsie convention model" for a con I ran many years ago, which was:
- take money from members - give money to airlines - realize airlines needed a lot more money than you expected, take money from concom - give money to hotel - give money to grocery stores - realize people were really, really hungry, take more money from concom - breathe sigh of relief that no one lynched you for leaving the convention in the red
That model only works for conventions with high-maintenance guests, ravenous hordes of members, and by-laws that allow concom assessments. None of which apply to GAFilk. We hope.
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Date: 2004-02-18 08:03 am (UTC)- take money from members
- give money to airlines
- give money to hotel
- give money to grocery stores
- marvel at shiny new penny still in cash bag at end of giving money away
Which is much better than the "oopsie convention model" for a con I ran many years ago, which was:
- take money from members
- give money to airlines
- realize airlines needed a lot more money than you expected, take money from concom
- give money to hotel
- give money to grocery stores
- realize people were really, really hungry, take more money from concom
- breathe sigh of relief that no one lynched you for leaving the convention in the red
That model only works for conventions with high-maintenance guests, ravenous hordes of members, and by-laws that allow concom assessments. None of which apply to GAFilk. We hope.