Dear all, It has been a really long time since I did a tech talk for one day.
It will be on a Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm or something. One tea break in the morning, one in the afternoon and a lunch break. Based on my experience now there is some data about how this works. If you charge 150 per head then that gives us allowance for providing tea/coffee and biscuits. The rest can go towards paying for the hall. In other words, "Hall/place is the only problem." Moreover we also need a projector and about 10 PCs. People can share computers ; in fact I feel that it is even better than individual computers. In other words we are looking at a place with projectors and computers. So it is a hall + facilities for training. And based on experience I feel that a workshop/training is much better than a simple classroom of theory. This works very well with all experience levels; just have live code samples and little bit of theory to make a story. If this formula is adopted the hall business need not become somebody's obligation like ever before. I am tired of going to people asking for charity/help in arranging a venue. Now please guide me where in Chennai we can get a place like this. You know something about the business side of things. Assuming a minimum of 30 people turning up we have Rs.4500/- to work out the rest. In other words if we fund ourselves then there is no obligation anywhere. The college can make some money as well. Can some college help us? IIT's ADI-Tenet comes to mind but let us avoid IIT. Any thoughts? -Girish -- G3 Tech Networking appliance company web: http://g3tech.in mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
