[Cynnabar] Comp teachers or lower site fee?

[Andrew]

I think another item not being addressed is that all of the people who  
attend the event can have more fun (and this seems to be especially  
true for niche events) if someone really talented is invited to come  
teach and shows up.

Likewise, and I dont know if this is case or not in the SCA, if you  
invite someone to come and teach X, and then ask them to pay a site  
fee after you personally invited them.... well, I don;t support that.   
If the event is really going to be that much better because person Z  
came to teach, is it really going to kill the event to comp them for  
making the trip and increasing everyone's fun?

-Hjorleif

Andrew Tomlinson
Producer, Prometheus Motion Pictures
Andrew at prometheusmotionpictures.com



On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Dennis Higgins wrote:

> I think there are two separate discussions going on
> 1.       Donations vs. Site fees (to be done in another thread)
> 2.       Finances and compensating people vs. site fees.
>
> In my opinion, compensating people does not have to be absolutely  
> linked to site fees. An event can be designed to have $X site fee,  
> compensate Y people and still make a profit. Can that profit be  
> bigger if the Y people were not compensated? Sure. However, that all  
> should be included in the event proposal and known to the group when  
> deciding to support the event.
>
> I think some people are thinking that the site fees are higher JUST  
> to compensate the Y people. This is not necessarily the case. It may  
> be in some situations, but I don’t think it’s the case with Terp. If  
> Terp makes a ton of money, and the autocrat decides to propose an  
> event budget that will net a lower profit to either help everyone  
> out or to draw more people, and the group agrees, we’re good. I  
> don’t think any is suggesting we raise the site fee just to  
> compensate the musicians. If that is a suggestion, I‘m personally  
> against it.
>
> -Finn
>
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