Hi, (I totally agree this is about finding new ways / solutions...)
On Sonntag, 22. August 2010, Wookey wrote:
> I'm not sure exactly how this info will/should affect the process. I
> guess the main thing is that people should at least know they will get
> the money 3 months in advance. If it's only 2 months then expect the
> costs to almost double.
the problem is, or rather was in previous years, that we never knew 3 months
in advance, how much money we would have. This year, IIRC, we didnt know
whether we had enough money to run the conference until two weeks in advance
or such.
We always knew that buying tickets in advance is cheaper and would have liked
to give money to sponsored people ASAP, but basically always this simply
wasnt possible.
So IMO the (first) problem is how to get 50k (to use a random number) 3-4
month in advance.
Maybe the solution for this is to deal with two different budgets, one for
running the conf and one for sponsorship. This would complicate aquiering
sponsors ("does your company want to sponsor the conf or developers
traveling") but it would ease spending the money on sponsorship: once we have
the sponsorship money allocated, we could spend it, whether the conference
budget has the funds or not.
(I dont think the solution is to have two different budgets.)
cheers,
Holger
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