Re: [strawbale] cost of the gathering-ANSWER

["oikia" <oikia.stojan@siol...>]

Hallo Martin and everyone!

Why the costs could be so high?

The answer is:

*    The costs for the experienced strawbalers contains costs for the room
 hired in the nearest hostel ).
*    The costs for newcommers are the same and participation for learning
it.
*    I am planing to do:
            -    to organize a day voyage thru the
region......................................the costs for the 1 day bus and
driver are cca. 500 DEM,
            -    a visit to vinecellar and outside dinner wich vine as you
want............also costs something?
            -    a slowenian music band with unplugged gipsy, ethno, ..music
for the saturday evening...................about 1000 DEM?
            -    PR costs for promotion,..etc.....are some costs,..,.etc.

If all off sufficient costs should be payed, to whome should i load it?
Surely not to the "instructors", the old strawbalewrs, or maybe?
Or this everything is not neccesary at all?    I was calculated  with about
10 - 20 visitors. For me also it's not nice to see 400 DEM  price for
the week.  In the mean time I am still tryng to get some donations to reduce
the costs. In this week it will be known and then I will let You know
about the new situation.


Stojan
-----Original Message-----
From: simon <pieman66@yahoo...>
To: strawbale-l@eyfa... <strawbale-l@eyfa...>
Date: 23. avgust 2001 16:46
Subject: [strawbale] cost of the gathering


>Hello everyone,
>
>To me, the price of this year's gathering in Slovenia seems phenomenally
>expensive.
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>400 DEM is completely unaffordable for nearly everyone I know. For
>example:
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>-Activists who rely on grants for their 'salaries', on average they earn
>about 200-300 DEM per week.
>-An unemployed person from the UK gets about 155 DEM per week.
>-Eastern Europeans - surely this amount of money is way out of the range
>of them?
>
>I can't understand why it's this expensive? Does food cost so much in
>Slovenia? Or does the fee pay for the building costs too?
>
>Many strawbale homeowners are lucky enough to be professional people who
>were able to afford a 'lifestyle-change': selling their home, buying some
>land and building their 'dream' strawbale house. For these people, the
>gathering is affordable.
>
>But all those people who I think strawbale would benefit the most - poor,
>homeless, from areas affected by war, ecological disasters, etc. - simply
>will not be able to afford this gathering.
>
>For me it's really important that a truly sustainable community is both
>ecologically AND socially sustainable, which means making knowledge and
>information available for people of all different backgrounds and skills.
>
>Cheers,
>Simon
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