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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black'>I thank the Secretary
for undertaking this tedious but very beneficial task.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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This is a great example of a project that is not “sexy”, but will ultimately be
extremely useful to the Libertarian Party.<br>
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Scott Lieberman<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Lnc-business
[mailto:lnc-business-bounces@hq.lp.org] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Alicia Mattson<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, August 14, 2014
5:14 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> lnc-business; Robert Kraus<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Lnc-business] archive of
historical convention data</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I've started working on a
project that I hope will be useful to this LNC and future LNCs for convention
planning purposes.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I'm taking the
information I have available from past national conventions and trying to
assemble it into a more usable archive. Perhaps when I'm finished we can
drop this on the staff wiki that was set up last year for easy reference by
convention planners and site scouters as needed.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The data that I have is
spread across a lot of documents with wildly varying formats, so someone
unfamiliar with the pile of documents would have to do a lot of digging around
to find comparable figures across different years. One of the key
elements of this project is that I'm creating a spreadsheet with a column for
each year that collects key data points into more easily-referenced
locations. I want to include for each year notes about how certain key
elements were handled, delegate attendance, hotel room night usage and booking
patterns, profit/loss data, package pricing, package sales breakdowns,
etc. I want to include copies of the executed contracts, invoices from
the hotels and various other vendors, the spreadsheet template I built to help
us compare future bids from potential sites (and somewhere in the past I wrote
a guide document to help LNC members understand that spreadsheet), the
convention planning to-do list that I created for 2012, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have some information
in my possession already from my past work with the conventions, but I don't
have everything I'd like to put into this archive. Robert Kraus likely
can provide me with some additional info, and I'll make inquiries with him as
needed. After I assemble what I can, maybe past convention planners can
help us fill in blanks or add to it. <br>
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My effort should be viewed as a starting point to build institutional knowledge
on a subject that has a lot of financial risk for the party. Future
convention planners shouldn't have to reinvent all the wheels each year.
They'll still have to do a lot of work, but maybe I can give them a jump start
on the process.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>-Alicia<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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