[yapc] howto conference costs

[James E Keenan]

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From: "Dan MacNeil" <omacneil at brave.cs.uml.edu>
To: <yapc at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:46 PM
Subject: [yapc] howto conference costs


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> I'm still amazed at how cheap and useful the conference was.
>
> How was this low cost achieved?
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> Some stuff seems obvious.
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> 2) No printed handouts.
>
Not quite that obvious.  The last 3 years (00-02), YAPC::NA had a nice
proceedings book distributed to all participants.  YAPC was inexpensive in
each of those years, so having printed handouts doesn't necessarily make a
conference expensive.

Use of academic, rather than corporate, settings is probably crucial, as is
not paying the speakers.