On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 07:40:12AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Richard Darst <r...@zgib.net> writes: > > > - All options have sponsored day trip / conference dinner. With the > > large magnitude of monies we are talking about, removing this this > > doesn't affect very much. Removing this last minute could close ~10 > > kCHF deficits. > > - I exclude income based on bed upselling or bar profit, I'm not sure > > it'll be so much. This is small compared to magnitudes below (~10 > > kCHF in localteam budget). > > I hesitate a bit to comment on this, because I recognize it is > tangential to your main point. However, I do think that budgeting a > sponsored day trip while budgeting zero travel sponsorship will leave a > bad taste in many people's mouths. To put it another way, I'm fine with > waiting to see if all the essentials are paid for before considering > travel sponsorship, but I don't consider a sponsored day trip to be an > essential aspect of DebConf.
Agreed. Here's my reasoning. At the no travel sponsorship range, there are 50-100 attendees, costing 2000 for day trip / 2000 for conference dinner. That's just small change, and probably would be chosen to be moved to travel sponsorship anyway. In general (and more of a suggestion for future years than anything), I consider anything less than 10 kCHF (or really 20-30 kCHF) within the uncertainty. It's more important to have a budget that can gracefully expand or contract depending on many details which can vary up to the last minute. So everything in my last emails is very, very, very approximate. - amount of sponsorship - number of attendees - number of paying attendees - any discounts we get - etc... - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - pyke: up 15:46, 4 users | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
