Re: Kfest opinions

[Kirk Mitchell <kmitchel@my-deja.com>]

In article <8co4tn$vjk$1@lynx.unm.edu>,
  buggie@ben03.unm.edu (stephen e buggie) wrote:
>                                KANSASFEST
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> I attended K-Fest 1996 and wrote an article, KANSASFEST PILGRIMAGE, in II
> Alive magazine the following season.  It is worth seeing, at least once.
>

My first year was '97.. Just missed you.  It IS worth doing, and more
than once.  It's just great to put faces to the names you see online.

> I only attended once.  The cost is high.  I can only afford it if I teach
> summer school, but if I teach summer school, then I miss the first half of
> the K-Fest events.  Catch-22.
>

Man... that would be discouraging.  I can keep the cost down by driving,
so it's not that bad...

> For years I've urged that the cost be reduced to $50. plus the dorm room
> costs.  But the high price has become entrenched and is hard to modify.

Well, they DO feed us, supply conference rooms, and such.  I doubt very
much that the KFest committee has any funds left over afterwards.

> My opinion is that expenses of staging the event are minimal because most
> arrangements are done via e-mail and the event is always held at the same
> venue - Avila College.  If fresh thinking could be done, dropping the
> costs drastically below what they have been, then more people would
> attend.  No one has yet explained where all the money goes.  As a 1996

I suppose your right, but then I figure it at a little more than $0.50/
day when you spread the cost out for a year.  This is with the early bird
discount. $45/day there for room, board, interesting folks, learning
something, losing sleep.  It's worth it to me.

> presenter, I got a $50.00 discount, and as an early bird registrant, there
> was another discount.  Still, the cost was about $250 that year.  But it
> is basically a "get-together"!  Where are the expenses?  Does someone get

Renting the dorm, cafeteria, conference hall, mailings, equipment
rental.. I don't know.  Seems fine to me.

> their own air-fare paid, or what???  Lets have EVERYONE PAY THEIR OWN WAY,
> their own dorm room, and then $50 will cover the printing of the paper
> program and the snail mail postage costs!
>

I do think your missing some stuff, but then I'll have to let the powers
that be answer that if they choose.


> Also, lets DROP THE BAN against Dr. Tom Turley!  The exclusion of Turley
> has led to protests and K-Fest boycotts by others in past years.  Dr. Tom

I was unaware of a ban.  Hmmm....

> has fresh ideas and he has helped the A2 world in the past by getting
> software added to the public domain, with the copyright owners' concent.
>

Well, it would certainly be interesting if he showed up.  B-{)

> Steve Buggie			buggie@unm.edu
>

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