If it weren't tied to that space they could hold it somewhere else like a convention center or hall on one of the college campuses, but even non-profit stuff I've gone to still charges about $10 a person in these kinds of spaces, and still has to get sponsorship to make it even. The SMM space is superior to a lecture hall or common space on campus, IMO, too. Space (and insurance) isn't cheap, sadly. On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Curtis Griesel <cwgriesel at gmail.com> wrote: > > First, I'd love to make it to SMM on Saturday to see these "Make" > experts display their stuff. But I can't really justify the $60 for 4 > hours of entertainment that this would give my wife and 3 kids -- $47 > for tickets, $10 for parking, and some change for snacks. "Make" is > supposed to be about doing free stuff yourself. Something about > paying $60 to watch someone else do it seems to be a little misguided. > -- Scott Dier <scott at dier.name> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090312/731863b4/attachment.htm