Would you really be happy to see your membership go up by enough to cover the cost of "free" internet service?
Well, $31,000 for WiFi access (plus a bit more to rent a few PCs for those who are laptopless) would only come to about $6 per member for a 5000 person con. Put in those terms I wouldn't mind paying another $6 for the access (that's less than a day at either hotel), but that way does lie madness.
Not using your extreme points of Hugos or Masquerade, but I also feel that it is important to subsidize childcare or have a staff/gopher lounge to feed volunteers (other areas that not every convention member may be using.) But those are already in the budget and we are not allocating each members membership money for each additional "add-on."
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Well, $31,000 for WiFi access (plus a bit more to rent a few PCs for those who are laptopless) would only come to about $6 per member for a 5000 person con. Put in those terms I wouldn't mind paying another $6 for the access (that's less than a day at either hotel), but that way does lie madness.
Not using your extreme points of Hugos or Masquerade, but I also feel that it is important to subsidize childcare or have a staff/gopher lounge to feed volunteers (other areas that not every convention member may be using.) But those are already in the budget and we are not allocating each members membership money for each additional "add-on."