Comments on: Thoughts on Running a WordCamp: Balancing Expenses http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/09/04/thoughts-on-running-a-wordcamp-balancing-expenses/ Random rants and wandering words Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:05:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin C. Houk http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/09/04/thoughts-on-running-a-wordcamp-balancing-expenses/comment-page-1/#comment-467719 Justin C. Houk Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:05:08 +0000 http://www.anotherblogger.com/?p=1277#comment-467719 Why not ask if the participants can stream and record the conference themselves? http://www.ustream.tv They win on self promotion, you win on making them and others happy at little expense. Paying attendees eat well! Those at home watch and eat ordered pizza. If you can figure out a good way to do it make it a contest or something. Justin Why not ask if the participants can stream and record the conference themselves? http://www.ustream.tv

They win on self promotion, you win on making them and others happy at little expense. Paying attendees eat well! Those at home watch and eat ordered pizza.

If you can figure out a good way to do it make it a contest or something.

Justin

]]> By: Duane Storey http://www.anotherblogger.com/2009/09/04/thoughts-on-running-a-wordcamp-balancing-expenses/comment-page-1/#comment-467713 Duane Storey Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:46:42 +0000 http://www.anotherblogger.com/?p=1277#comment-467713 I posted a review of WordCamp Whistler after it was all said and done. You can check it out here. http://www.duanestorey.com/blog/2009/wordcamp-whistler-in-review/ I wasn't that big into streaming either, but the precedent had already been set from other WordCamps. A local non-profit offered to stream it for us in exchange for allowing them entry into the event. They set up a few small cell phone cameras and did it that way. Food was a pretty major budget item for us. I personally would have rather everyone fended for themselves for lunch, since it would have brought prices down substantially. But in the end it all worked out financially (barely), and we managed to make ends meet and keep the train on the tracks. I posted a review of WordCamp Whistler after it was all said and done. You can check it out here.

http://www.duanestorey.com/blog/2009/wordcamp-whistler-in-review/

I wasn’t that big into streaming either, but the precedent had already been set from other WordCamps. A local non-profit offered to stream it for us in exchange for allowing them entry into the event. They set up a few small cell phone cameras and did it that way.

Food was a pretty major budget item for us. I personally would have rather everyone fended for themselves for lunch, since it would have brought prices down substantially. But in the end it all worked out financially (barely), and we managed to make ends meet and keep the train on the tracks.

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