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Roch Guerin wrote:
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>> Well, none given out from the conference, but there are subsidies given
>> out by the SIG - and that money comes from conference surpluses. For the
>> SIGCOMM conference, this includes the SIGCOMM award winner (who is
>> typically the keynote), the student award winner. There are also funds
>> for the GeoDiversity grants.
>>
> Sure, but as you point out, these have *nothing* to do with the budget
> of an individual conference.
They do as follows:
- - when an organization has a surplus, it can afford to run closer to the
edge of losing money
- - when an organization has no surplus, it needs a conference to add to
the surplus (e.g., the ACM requires that a SIG have 50% of its yearly
operating budget in surplus)
As a result, how you perceive the "overhead" tax depends on whether you
think:
a) you're paying into a fund that you thin you never see
b) you're paying into a fund that already gives back
to you this year
As to travel to the meeting and complementary meetings, I can speak for
myself right now, for both my roles in the ACM and the IEEE:
1) I have never received a free registration EXCEPT when keynote
2) I have never received travel funds, a hotel room, or
honoraria except as a tutorial presenter (which is typical
in both organizations, and is part of the separate tutorial
budget, FWIW)
3) I have no "entertainment budget", and have never held an
organizational meeting whose expenses were submitted for
reimbursement
4) the only other "comps" I have received were things that
the hotel threw into the contract free, e.g., larger room
(for every N rooms, they give a room upgrade), or a plate
of fruit or such
Please also keep in mind that the conference costs also pay for the TPC
meeting (teleconference, meeting space, lunch/dinner), and paper
management costs (EDAS fees, DOCOLOC fees, etc.). Some groups use free
services for this (Sigcomm, e.g.); others (esp. larger meetings) use pay
services due to issues of scale. These costs are small, but nonzero.
Joe
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