SST CONFERENCE VENUE QUESTIONNAIRE
Would you please fill out this questionnaire if you would like to offer your city as a venue for a future SST conference. Note that the conference is held around late November/early December of the intended year.
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Basic data In what year are you bidding to hold the conference?
In what city?
At what venue?
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Timing What dates do you propose?
Are there local constraints on adjusting these?
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Travel How far is the nearest airport?
What is the cost of ground transport?
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Venue SST conferences normally require 2 adjacent lecture rooms, with at least a further
two rooms for commercial exhibits, poster sessions, and coffee breaks.
Does your venue provide for this configuration?
What is the capacity of the lecture rooms?
What is the capicity of adjoining rooms?
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Accommodation Accommodation should ideally be of several kinds: campus residence, motels
and hotels - from cheap to more expensive. All should be within easy reach of
the venue.
What accommodation options does your location provide?
Please indicate approximate cost and distance from the conference facility.
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Environment Please list social and tourist facilities that would attract delegates to your city.
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Organisation Would you expect to use a professional conference organiser?
(see clause 9 of the committee Terms of Reference)
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Support people Please identify the support people who would assist you in organising the event.
Please aim for breadth in terms of institution, discipline, seniority and gender.
PERSON INSTITUTION DISCIPLINE
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Needs Can you identify any external assistance that you feel may not be available locally?
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Financial management ASSTA terms of reference for SST committees include the need to budget for a
profit which ASSTA uses to keep its membership fees low. Please indicate the
source of financial expertise available to your committee.
What potential industrial/commercial sponsors can you identify? Please indicate
your degree of confidence in receiving support and how much could be expected.
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Guidelines ASSTA has produced a set of guidelines for SST conference committees to help
with the organisation of the conference. These guidelines are for your assistance
but also to provide an indication of what ASSTA regards as "normal practice" for
SST conference committees. It is the responsibility of the chair of the committee
to ensure that members of the committee consult the relevant guidelines and
that they report to the ASSTA executive via the committee chair any significant
deviations of practice that are proposed. Your signature below will indicate that
this responsibility has been accepted.
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Terms of Reference All ASSTA committees have formal terms of reference which provide the basis
for the extension of the work of the Association's officers via each committee.
Your signature to the answers on this questionnaire will indicate that you accept
the formal terms of reference on behalf of the committee. The terms of reference
are open to changes that are explicitly agreed with the ASSTA executive.
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Signature signed:
date:
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