On 2014-03-27 19:52, Steve Langasek wrote:
And to any members of the DC15 team who may be reading this with
alarm: note
that our max budget is for 143 sponsored attendees, and a $45k travel
budget. The budget is set with high margins, to try to ensure we
don't have
to turn anyone away who wants to attend; but in practice, the
bursaries team
has usually run out of people to sponsor before running out of money.
So
there's a very good chance that a sizable portion of this bursaries
allocation will be yours next year, no matter what else happens. :)
Please stop propagating the "next year's DebConf inherits surpluses
(but not loan liability)" idea....
All DebConf money is Debian money. We have agreed that Debian will
fund gaps in the DebConf budgets, rather than requiring it to be
self-sustaining each year, on the basis that surplus is absorbed back
into Debian funds. (Previously, we hadn't given up surpluses, but had
taken quite a lot from Debian general funds.)) I agree with your point
to the extent that if we make consistent surpluses we can more easily
draw on them, but also remember that one year we could have a real
disaster and want to draw on a larger amount of general funds
unexpectedly.
Thanks,
--
Moray
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