[sudo-discuss] Fwd: Price calculations

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

I had sent this out to the Omni Logistics group earlier. If anyone would
like me to go over any of this at the meeting this evening, let me know...

Patrik


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:44 AM
Subject: Price calculations
To: omnilogistics at lists.riseup.net

Hi all,

I've fleshed out my rate calculations for $/sqft of dedicated space, and
for use of the shared space. Details are in my spreadsheet and on the wiki:

http://wiki.omni-oakland.org/w/Building#Price.2FSq_Ft
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17DINigEczGwjfTdmdxl-MpYe1KJzJJDeCHRQnMC9usg/edit?usp=sharing

There's a lot of details, but in the end it boils down to (1) you pay a
fixed rate for any dedicated space you'd like to claim (including storage
space etc.), and (2) you pay some "share" towards use of the resources of
the shared space.

I know, this is a big departure from the "offer what you can afford, and
ask for whatever space you'd like" approach we've been taking so far. But I
do feel we need something like this, to make our pricing scheme fair and
transparent.

Two big discrepancies, when comparing with how much rent different groups
have pledged:

- The Cafe covers a large amount of high-quality space - and should be a
potential money-maker for the space. However, right now it's only penciled
in as contributing $1500 to the rent.

- Oakland Nights Live wants to host a large event in the Ballroom once a
month, but have only committed to $100 in rent so far.

I definitely don't want to pick on these two groups, and I would love to
see these be part of the Omni. But it does point out that we need to work
with them to make sure that what they propose makes financial sense as
well. E.g. If we put a bit more effort into fundraising during the Oakland
Nights Live events (even just asking for donations, and/or selling
T-shirts), there's no reason we couldn't make these self-sufficient.

Patrik
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://sudoroom.org/pipermail/sudo-discuss/attachments/20140430/a982abb8/attachment.html>