Hi Holger :) Did anyone answer you? I would love to have a MiniDebConf in Hamburg and I am happy to help out. But budget and finances are not at all my thing and I don't have the capacity to do it on my own :-/ Would it be of any help, if we both would do it together?
Best, dorle Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> writes: > Dear people, > > once again I would like to organize a Debian event in Hamburg, > and therefore I have preliminary reserved the venue of previous years > from Wednesday, April 30th until Monday, May 5th 2025. > > For those who haven't been there, the venue is probably best described in > https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg#Location > > The dates are a bit sub optimal, but I think that was the best > available block, with hopefully the weather already being okish > and still not too close to DebConf25 in Brest in July. > > As for the format, I think we should have a MiniDebConf on > Saturday and Sunday & miniDebCamp for the rest. A small DayTrip > maybe too, but probably not with the rest of the world on May 1st? > & definitly cheese and wine! ... and/or what do y'all think? > > And here's a caveat: I don't want to deal with doing the budget > & finances anymore, I've done it for several years, it's neither complex > nor complicated, but it's just nothing I find fun. But maybe it > *is* fun for someone else? :) > > So, is someone willing to do that? Doing it as group might also be more > fun! > > The task needed *roughly* described are: > - calculate a budget and get it approved by the DPL (see below) > - get in contact with a TO, which here is Debian France and who will > do the actual payments of invoices to us and who will also > generate the invoices for sponsors to pay > - talk to sponsors, find sponsors, etc., send invoices to sponsors. > - receive invoices from venue and food supplier(s) etc > - update the budget > - have fun! > > Useful URLs are: > - https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL#Money > - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg/Budget > - https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2024/MiniDebCampHamburg/Budget > > If you are interested, please reply to this email or come around on > #debconf-hamburg or #debconf-germany! > > The budget in 2024 was 11.5k EUR with no income from sponsors, while in 2023 > it was more like 15k EUR with 7k EUR income from sponsors, but the event was > also bigger. For 2025 I expect *roughly* the same costs as 2023, maybe some > prices were raised, so max 17k EUR ? ;) Minus whatever sponsors we get! > > So, what do y'all think??? > > > -- > cheers, > Holger > > ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ > ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ holger@(debian|reproducible-builds|layer-acht).org > ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ OpenPGP: B8BF54137B09D35CF026FE9D 091AB856069AAA1C > ⠈⠳⣄ > > "Any fool can know. The point is to understand." - A. Einstein
