Does your university have “continuing education” “grandparent’s University” or “extension” departments? This might be a way to organize the swc event as a “non-credit” class. Locally, we’ve organized low-fee events like swc through those departments.
Nathan From: nicholdav via discuss <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2018 10:05 AM To: discuss <[email protected]> Subject: [discuss] Options / best practices for sc workshop registration fee? Hi all, We're planning our first Software Carpentry workshop, and it will be self-organized. We have a couple questions about the suggested registration fee. When our group started, we had a small amount of support from the tail end of a training grant, but that grant has ended. This means we don't have funding, and we don't have anything like an account at the school that we could associate with an Eventbrite event for the workshop. I am guessing we are not the first group to face this situation. How have other people handled this? It seems like setting up an Eventbrite connected with someone's personal credit card would be the easiest but also has the least accountability. Also it would be great, if there is anything left over after getting food, coffee, etc., for the workshop, to be able to use that towards other events for our group (so I can stop funding snacks for meetings with my grocery money :) ). Should we be trying to set ourselves up as a non-profit, or something like that? One option would be to start a graduate student group at the campus where we usually meet. But we're a mix of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, techs, etc., from three different universities. I'd prefer to keep it that way, and have data science be "academic Switzerland", but it means no one school is likely to approve our forming as a group under their umbrella. Sorry for the detail dump, but I'm not at all sure the best way to handle this. Any advice would be very much appreciated. Thank you, David Nicholson Emory University The Carpentries<https://carpentries.topicbox.com/latest> / discuss / see discussions<https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + participants<https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + delivery options<https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups> Permalink<https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf549d7b277e0fae5-M64ba0e537c89f1f78f810edf> ------------------------------------------ The Carpentries: discuss Permalink: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/Tf549d7b277e0fae5-M21561ade35687b8e652e5487 Delivery options: https://carpentries.topicbox.com/groups
