Re: Kfest '98: Registration Info!!!!

[dmiller@xc4systm.com (Dave Miller)]

In article <6b80mo$ggk$1@lynx.unm.edu>, buggie@musca.unm.edu (stephen e
buggie) wrote:

> The price of K-Fest may be slightly less than in the past, but still sky
> high compared to academic conventions.
> 
> I note that the cost is $215 if the attender gets NO MEALS OR ROOM; why??
> 
> By comparison, here are comparable registration fees for conferences I
> attend ---- hotel and meals are extra.  These academic meetings run 3-4
> days, similar to K-Fest (Okay, KFest is five days ...)

I'm not on the committee, so I don't know the exact reasons for KFest, but
I pulled out my current issue of Communications of the ACM (a computer
industry magazine) and looked at the prices of the 2 to 3 day conferences
advertised in there, and noticed most of them are in the $400 to $600
range, and don't include hotels or meals.  And some of those WERE
subsidised by the organization or a major sponsor.
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