[Tccc] Promoting open on-line research

Pars Mutaf pars.mutaf
Mon Oct 31 14:00:02 EDT 2011


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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