On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 05:04:18PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 05:45:53PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:35:20AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote: > > > [debconf-surplus] For readers of -project, here's what this means: > > > Sponsors slowly pledge money over the spring, and we usually are in a > > > panic about "oh no, we have no money to afford anything". But as time > > > goes on, things get together. We get a few more sponsors. We find > > > local supporters who will sponsor things locally, or negotiate better > > > discounts, or find cheaper venues. A major source of extra money is > > > when many people don't reconfirm, or don't show up, saving us a lot on > > > accommodation costs. > > > > It's probably not unreasonable to wonder why many people do not > > reconfirm. Is it because they don't know yet whether they'll be > > sponsored? If that's the case, then you're now basically saying "most of > > the money we'll be using to ensure no sponsored attendee will cancel is > > coming from the sponsored attendees who cancel"; that logic is somewhat > > flawed. > > Well... > > Food+accom sponsorship is decided early, I think around the > beginning of June this year. It is generally pretty easy to get - > unless you are not related to free software, you'll get it. There is > really no significant uncertainty about this. > > Travel sponsorship is harder to get, and that is what was very > last-minute this year. But the team is aware of that, and keeps track > of who hasn't reconfirmed and is waiting for it, who might be able to > reconfirm if they got it. > > However, the thing about getting lots of extra money from people who > don't reconfirm is from accom-sponsored-people.
Right, that explains it. In that case, please just forget what I said :-) -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
