The typical costs a professional speaker require are return airfare and a hotel room while they are here. Some speakers will relent on the hotel and accept the accommodations of a generous member. We are still talking hundreds of dollars if not over a thousand.
Those costs seem appropriate for people who would have to fly in. What about our own local experts? Perhaps there are others in western Canada who could come on a more reasonable budget, or we could piggy back with other organizations who would like to have them speak.
It seems like there are even lots of local experts on interesting areas: The mysql people, Aaron (who appears to be very involved already :) ). Surely there are others. I would be surprised if Calgary didn't have an expert in the area of Apache, perhaps cluster technologies due to the oil and gas industry. I also have a few contacts with other open source projects that may be of interest. I went to college with the project lead of phpBB, and I am pretty sure he would be willing to give a presentation for the price of gas (from Edmonton) and some beer :) I also know a few kernel hackers that often travel to this side of the country.
Are these types of speakers feasible / desired?
ian.
The past Executive did look into getting professional speakers and it was decided that it was too expensive for us at this time.
I think that if we did have a project that required some serious capitol and we thought it was appropriate taking it to the group at-large this is a good idea. At present most of the monetary decisions are made by the Executive as they should be. I don't want to be bothered with every little thing they have to purchase.
Jarrod
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