Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

permaculture - Re: [permaculture] NAPC: Scarcity?

permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: permaculture

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Bob Waldrop <bob@bobwaldrop.net>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] NAPC: Scarcity?
  • Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:12:25 -0500

I agree this has been a valuable thread.

In my preevious experience in the convention business, generally you develop your budget based on previous experience. The absolute hardest and most knuckle biting conference to present is a new conference, one without an established record or constituency. The knucklebiting is because people always wait until the last minute to book their attendance and every conference I was ever involved with sold a lot of tickets in the last two weeks. Of course "the last two weeks" is useless or nearly so when it comes to program, because your program is generally arranged months in advance of the final two weeks before the event.

I think crowd sourcing some seed money for the next event, or to fund the planning committee on an on-going basis, would be a great idea.

I also think that establishing a permanent organizing group is a better idea than handing the convention off to new people in different regions each year. In other words, I'm assuming there will be a conversation at the event about the NEXT event. One of the options is for local committees throughout the country to bid for the convention, the other is to have a permanent planning committee, which possibly could work with local groups. I'd vote for the permanent planning committee.

Bob Waldrop, Okie City

On 8/5/2014 1:50 PM, Toby Hemenway wrote:
I'm gaining a lot from this thread and appreciate everyone's conscientious,
thoughtful comments. Thomas brings up many good points, and I also want to
get to a few of Koreen's. I think we are getting to some solutions here. A
few responses:

On Aug 4, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Thomas Allen <thallen@nwlink.com> wrote:

Do we put on an event with volunteer labor at a very low price so young
entrants into permaculture can attend or do we put on the best event possible.
Where I'm trying to go with this is: it is not either/or. It's possible to
put on excellent events with options that low-income people can afford,





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page