[Cynnabar] Comp teachers or lower site fee?

[Monique Rio]

Just to be clear, I don't think that having a suggested donation and
having events make money are mutually exclusive concepts. It just
depends on where you set that suggested donation at. You can set it so
that you will probably make money, but not too much.

The problem with just passing the hat is no one knows what's
appropriate. Is $5 enough? $10? $20? What's my neighbor putting in the
basket?

I'd like to think that if people knew what the minimum amount was to
do their part, they'd put in that and maybe a bit more. And I'm
perfectly OK with the minimum being set a bit higher than what's
absolutely necessary for that specific event, as long as the minimum
is still reasonable. Using Terp as an example, if the minimum was $7,
that'd be fine. $10 also fine. $25... would seem a bit steep given
past gate fees. I'd want to see some reasoning for $25, but might be
able to be convinced if I saw the budget.

-Jadzia

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Charles J. Cohen
<charles at eecs.umich.edu> wrote:
>
> My personal preference is for local events to plan on making money
> (maybe not heaping steeping gobs of money, but say 50% above the costs),
> so that when an occassional event tanks (due to weather, acts of god or
> Royalty, whatever), the group can easily recover.
>
> - Midair
>
>>I think that the even better way to do it is to have a suggested
>>donation with the event finance info posted. I think this would be
>>totally in line with our values, and will probably do this for Cecilia
>>Day.
>>
>>-Jadzia
>>
>>On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Greg Less <greg.less at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> So if the reason we are able to comp teachers/performers is because we are
>>> making money on the event, it seems to me that it would make more sense to
>>> lower the overall gate fee so that more people can enjoy the event for less
>>> expense per person, than to subsidize a select few people's day...
>>> -Gregoire.
>