Re: [mpi-21] Fee for January meeting

[Rusty Lusk <lusk@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rich,

This seems fine.   One thing my secretary reminded me of, that your  
people probably already understand, is that if we pay registration on  
line with our credit cards, then we will still need some sort of  
receipt, so that we can get reimbursed afterwards.  (Maybe this can  
be just a web page to print.)   I also know from experience that at  
least Argonne wants the registration form to say which meals are  
included in the registration form.  I assume that in our case it will  
be one (lunch of the middle day).

Rusty

On Jan 2, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Richard Graham wrote:

> The information about the fee for the meetings is buried in one of the
> recent e-mail messages I sent out, and I have been asked about this
> explicitly.  So instead of answering this question N different  
> times, here
> it is:
>
> .... snip
>
> Fee: $125/person per meeting.  Note that we will be charging this  
> fee also
> at the first meeting, even though Microsoft is picking up the tab.   
> Based on
> experience from the past Forum, it was suggested that we have a small
> reserve for unexpected costs (some of which have already been  
> incurred).  As
> the Forum winds down we will charge less for the meetings to use up  
> what
> ever excess exists.  ORNL conference management will be handling the
> financial aspects of the meetings, and we will be trying to set up  
> a way to
> make credit card payments online.  Checks will also be accepted,  
> and can be
> made out to "MPI Forum".  Cash will not be accepted - the audit  
> trail is
> much more difficult with this.
>
> .... snip
>
>
> Rich