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> And I would like to see those split up in 2 separate discussion on the<br />
> members-discussion list as well.<br />
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Great idea!<br />
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> 1) a discussion about what is the cost and do we want to keep the cost allocation<br />
> as is. For instance, do we keep a 650k Euro loss a year for the RIPE meetings or<br />
> is a change in operating / cost allocation required ?<br />
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I see that in budget for 2011 year <span class="short_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">scheduled expenditure:<br />
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RIPE meeting - 875 kEUR<br />
Training Courses - 383 kEUR<br />
Regional Meetings - 263 kEUR,<br />
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Summary meeting cost: </span></span>1521kEUR.<br />
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Now we have the following situation: each LIR pays defined cost for all of meetings which are being hold during whole year. But actually not every LIR-representative visits such meetings.<br />
So there is a question: <strong>Maybe there is no need to hold such meetings and trainings while we could run a lot of Webinars.</strong> Webinars would not be such cost-based as real meetings, but could be such useful as them.<br />
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