[Tccc] Promoting open on-line research

Pars Mutaf pars.mutaf
Tue Nov 1 06:43:32 EDT 2011


According to:
http://arxiv.org/help/support/whitepaper

>>> The calendar year 2010 budget for arXiv is $400,000

arxiv can be augmented with open public discussion of articles (additional
software and
administration cost).

We compare this with: Conference registration costs ($500-1000), up to
about 1500
attendees, travel and hotel cost. (not counting the harm done to the planet)

This is 1 conference, there 100s of them only in computer networking.

Cheers,
Pars

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Pars Mutaf <pars.mutaf at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Francesco Potort? <Potorti at isti.cnr.it>wrote:
>
>> >Dear researcher,
>> >
>> >A mediocre quality scientific conference costs ~1M dollars to the world
>> >just for registration fees.
>>
>> A 200-attendants conference with fees of 500$ is 100k$ in registration
>> fees.  How do we get to 1M$?
>>
>
>
> Hi Francesco,
>
> 100k$ is already high compared to the perceived benefit but I am talking
> about bigger
> conferences (which still have low impact).
>
> With 1000 attendants (I saw even 1500) and $1000 we obtain 1M. This is
> only the
> registration fee. There is also travel (BTW today one of the petitioners
> raised concerns
> about the harm done to the environment i.e. carbon footprint by traveling)
>
> For statistics please see:
>
> http://www.cs.iit.edu/~xli/CS-Conference-Accept-Ratio.htm
>
>
>
>>
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