<HTML>In a message dated 7/4/02 11:32:46 AM Central Daylight Time, dm.porritt@verizon.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> The idea might be good, but when you crunch the numbers, it isn't such a good deal after all. > Wim Where in the world did you get real world numbers to crunch already? dave </BLOCKQUOTE> 2000 members paying $200 a piece for registration equals $400,000. The reason 200 members have to pay $200, is to pay for all the space the convention uses. As I mentioned before, a hotel gives us this space in exchange for the rooms we rent and the food we eat. A university doesn't do that. They want to get paid for the space we use. The dorms are a separate account, and so is the food at the cafeteria. So if a seminar that uses lots of space costs 2000 attendees $200 a piece, that is presumably to pay for the space used. We need as much space, (if not more). That will cost us $400,000. But we have only 600 paid attendees. $400,000 divided by 600 equals $650. Wim </HTML>