At the end of the
PDC today people were giving feedback.
The
PDC was free for residents and $400 for non residents. No food would be provided.
It sounds like people VERY MUCH liked the idea of a lower price for the event without food. But they did think it would be cool if there was an industrious resident selling organic foodstuff and maybe even organic meals.
Somebody suggested that they would like the opportunity to join me for at least one meal. Maybe several.
On this
PDC, I fed and housed the instructors and the VIPs (Howard and Nong, Jeremy (assistant to howard), Jacqueline and Joseph Freeman, Nathan, Luse and Luna Crane, Daniel and Krissy, Stewart, Estar, Morgan, Devin, Sergei, Dave and Matt Hunter, Thomas Elpel and Wren, Josho and Bridget, .... and maybe some others I am forgetting). Between event preparations, cleaning before during and after, food and all the other expenses, my math says that this event cost me about $5000 and my gross income is/was $0.00. Although I did get a lot of people that picked up a lot of bounties which was excellent. I'm not counting those bounties in this - I am saying that without the event those bounties might not have been done for many months into the future.
So, for this event, there were 21 students. About $238.10 per student. I suppose if there is an event like this in the future, I could say that I need to be paid $1000 plus $200 per student. Or, a more precise formula might be $1000 + $100 per student + $10 per day per student. And this is just to allow somebody like howard to put the event on here. Howard still does all of the registrations and airport deliveries and stuff.
And then if people show up early, they can collect a bunch of bounties on stuff getting prepped. And maybe if people are staying late, they can pick up bounties on getting stuff cleaned up.
Anybody else have thoughts and suggestions?