Sorry for the delay in answering. > > (...) > > And yes... Raising 200,000 CHF still... makes me shiver :-( I just > > hope we can make it. Keeping a "plan B" in case we don't should be a > > priority :-/ > > Gunnar, I completely understand the above and I think everyone in the > localteam already got it. But, speaking for myself and not for the > whole team, can we please stop remarking it?
Right, and I apologize for it. Sometimes we get in a feedback loop and, without the people who did the analysis and the real work in the field, we kept amplifying the noise ;-) > We will for sure keep a "plan B", but IMHO we should not expect so many > cost reductions. And I do not think that the "plan B" should be a > priority, instead the other way around: looking as much as possible for > sponsors for "plan A" is what we should do until the end of this year. Right. The soul of the Swiss bid is to have DebConf *not* in a big city. So, lets keep our energies focused on it. But as long as possible, please keep some base providers/prices monitored, in case a plan B *is* required. Hopefully it won't. > > Right, the order can be set according to the exact amount, but the > > size should be comparable. And comparable still leaves a lot of > > ambiguity - A 200x10 logo is much more visible than a 45x45 one, even > > though it has a very similar area. > > Got it, thanks. Are all these dimensions explained/set somewhere? People who have worked with the website, please? I remember having this discussion, but don't have more details. > >> > * We would like to note that hardware donations to support the DebConf > >> > infrastructure are welcomed. > >> > >> Is this really true? I'm not aware that we are in need of any hardware > >> for DebConf at the moment. I would avoid this because im my experience > >> companies that actually sell hardware or services that we might use tend > >> to prefer to donate this instead of money. But we mostly need money, not > >> hardware or services. If companies ask we can always negotiate > >> something, but I would not offer this possibility upfront. > > > > I think we can kep this possibility open - in case we need it. Of > > course, we should not accept hardware we don't need. But remember that > > Debconf-is-Debian. We can get a server donation as part of Debian's > > hardware replacement program, saving debian the equivalent money, and > > getting it from the inside. > > Should I completely remove that part for the next level proposal? I think we should keep it and even encourage it. Again, if Debian is looking out to spend some thousands of euros in nice servers, and a company gives us equivalent servers for DebConf, the servers will be Debian's - And the money could be transfered (completely inside Debian's budget) to the DebConf budget. Of course, if we get a van full of old SparcStations, it would not amount to sponsorship at all, as it's not hardware useful for Debian (that I know of, of course). _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
