[ST] A big question about comps

[David D'Antonio]

Hi all,

What I did as Events DivHead over the last few years was to give out  
1-2 full comps to the specific event runner(s); everyone else  
involved in the event got a day-of comp. If there were extenuating  
circumstances, I could give a couple more full comps but I usually  
cleared that with the con chair staff.

For Rocky, for example, there were 2 full comps and day-of (Friday,  
not Saturday :-) comps for everyone else. The event runners told me  
who got which type and I submitted all that to Reg. For the Period  
Dance, there were extenuating circumstances and so a couple more full  
comps were given, at least one of which was a duplicate comp because  
the person already had been comped by Programming!

To me, anyway, both Events were worth the comp cost to Arisia as they  
were multi-hour events that were quite popular.

DDA

On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Skip Morris wrote:

> For Staff or Program comps, there's a pre-defined "contribution" to  
> Arisia that
> gets a person a full-weekend comp.  (Usually 12 hours or three  
> program items.)
>
> For Events it's less well defined.  There are a huge number of  
> people involved
> in events.  For things like Rocky Horror, or a Masquerade Half-time  
> Presentation
> you might have upwards of 50 people coming in for that one item.
>
> Other Events last multiple hours. Examples are Junk-Yard Wars, or  
> the Period
> Dance. For the Period Dance (for example), sometimes the organizer  
> recruits
> 6-8 people to serve as "ringers", getting out on the dance floor  
> and serving as
> examples and encouragement to get others out there and  
> participating.  Should
> these people get comps?  Some event organizers think so, some don't.
>
> What happens it the poor Events/Ops/Exhibits/etc DivHead gets hit  
> with many
> demands for a comp memberships in return for sometimes minor  
> contributions
> to the convention.
>
> If you give out too many comps it really can impact the budget.  
> That's one of
> the reasons my convention lost money.  Final expenses were right on  
> target,
> but income was way down due to a huge number of comps given out. Comp
> memberships probably cost my convention $10,000.
>
> I'm not sure of current numbers, but in past years comps have been  
> 25% of
> total memberships, with earned comps being about half total comps.  
> (Someone
> with better numbers can correct me.)
>
> /Skip
>
> On Dec 5, 2007 2:34 PM,  <SciFiFanBoston at aol.com> wrote:
>> Are we talking about people like Higgins Armory people, or people  
>> on doing
>> the D.J. work, or people helping out say putting up the stage?   
>> I'd like to
>> think that all of our comps are full-weekend pre-earned... but I'd be
>> thinking wrong, huh?  So, just how many day-comps or are they  
>> actually
>> full-weekend comps like all our earned comps are?
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DDA
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