On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote:
> You certainly can have too much money; frankly, I'm surprised that anyone on > the team would suggest otherwise. > > The simplest provable definition of "too much money" is if the conference > has become so tainted by corporate messaging in exchange for that money, > that we no longer have enough Debian folks interested enough to come to the > conference to use up our travel sponsorship budget. > > I don't say that this is the case with the current plan, but I think it /is/ > important to recognize that being too "successful" at fundraising does > actually represent an existential danger to DebConf. You seem to be mixing up "having a lot of money" and "selling out". They can be correlated, agreed. Yet, in the context of what madduck said, I read this as a "making more money is better" and I agree with that sentiment. > For clarification: does the fact that these expenses are not tax-exempt pose > problems for the non-profit status of the organization as a whole? Or does > it "just" mean additional tax paperwork / tax to be paid? IANAL, but from what we gathered it's the former. Richard _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
