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
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G3 Tech
Networking appliance company
web: http://g3tech.in ?mail: girish at g3tech.in
