Re: [mpi-21] Fee for January meeting

[Richard Graham <rlgraham@xxxxxxxx>]

The people that will be handling this are not back from the break yet, so
this may not be up and running for the first meeting.

Thanks for the reminder about the meals, our folks will want the same
information.

Thanks again,
Rich


On 1/3/08 11:02 AM, "Rusty Lusk" <lusk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>> 
>