On Sun, Jan 22, 2006 at 06:27:10PM +0100, Amaya wrote: > Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > 17:58:47 <stockholm> please read > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebConf6TravelSponsorship > > It looks like we are short on budget. > Maybe we can remove the formal dinner DPL talk, and have that time slot > for rent, and move Mark's talk there and make Canonical pay more > sponsorship? Something similar happened in Toronto.
yes, we dont have all the money yet. i hope that changes and i work on it. there are some points that make me hopefull that we will do fine, anyway: - we have only ~200 peopole who request sponsored accommodation currently. quite a few will drop out at reconfirmation time and more will register until then, not sure which effect will be greater. but chances are that we wont have 300 eating/sleeping sponsorees, which will save us money. - several big sponsors promised money but did not name an amount yet The problem is that i do not want to overcommit. just very recently i heared stories from free software conferences where sponsors did not pay and which were br0ke. I would prefere to do a less pompous debconf this year and next year instead of the alternative. i have not started to ask all the small sponsors we had last year, since they wont be able to compensare by far for a big sponsor and i like to go after the low hanging fruits first. canonical is in this category. i will run some "experiments" on the spreadsheet to see how we do with less people coming. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
