Otto
I couldn't agree with you more on the issue of the event form. Excellent idea to simplify it and provide an excell file that the organizers can use..
Harry
On Sep 10, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Otto Spaniol wrote:
Dear Dipak (and all),
there is an *urgent* need to simplify the event request forms.
Practically nobody delivers even a half-correct version. In most cases the figures presented are more or less (or even totally) ridiculous, in particular on page 2 where the budget is presented.
Today I received a particularly nice example where the break even number of participants was calculated by (believe it or not!): 0.07 participants.
Later on I checked other forms of the past and I found that the break even point for another conference (a very prominent TC6 conference) was given as: - 50 paricipants (yes, minus fifty !!!).
Wouldn't it be possible to prepare a self-explaining Excel sheet for the budget?
If things stay as they are the budget informations are totally useless and I will refrain from trying to correct strange request forms in the future.
Best regards
cc.: Christiane McKenzie (IFIP Secretariat) Otto
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