Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-25 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Moray, More specifically for this year, the budget approval happened within the > context of a debate over whether we could afford a DebCamp or not. To > protect the main conference events, "worst case" budgets were assigned to > them. That doesn't make it automatically responsible to aim to

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-25 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-07-24 15:08, Steve Langasek wrote: If it does fit in the budget when looked at this way, then as the budget has already been approved, I support Raphaël and Didier moving forward with this plan. Even if some of us don't think this is the best use of the money, it's not fair to those do

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 04:28:07PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > Can you please point me at the cost of the one-hour boat ride option? > > Looking at the 2h boat ride + dinner, the total is 14102 CHF; the > > conference > > dinner budget is 10440 CHF; this is a deficit of 3662 CHF, but I don't know

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Steve Langasek writes: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:34:28PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: >> Lucas Nussbaum writes: > >> > A conference dinner during a boat trip looks great, and something that >> > attendees will remember, but it also looks quite expensive, even if we >> > can afford it thanks

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Philipp Hug
> According to their quote it would cost us CHF 5'076. On my side I didn't > look > at it this way. Just pool everything together and try to make an amazing > Day > Trip & Dinner for the project. That's all. > > Oops, sorry, I quoted the price without VAT. Philipp _

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Raphaël Walther
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:08:47AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > > My understanding is that the proposal does exceed the stated budget for > > > the conference dinner, which is what makes it important to have the > > > analysis again

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi, > Can you please point me at the cost of the one-hour boat ride option? > Looking at the 2h boat ride + dinner, the total is 14102 CHF; the > conference > dinner budget is 10440 CHF; this is a deficit of 3662 CHF, but I don't know > how much the 1h boat ride would cost us. Perhaps this reall

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > My understanding is that the proposal does exceed the stated budget for > > the conference dinner, which is what makes it important to have the > > analysis against the other points. (We believe we can afford it by > > reallocating u

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi Steve, > My understanding is that the proposal does exceed the stated budget for the > conference dinner, which is what makes it important to have the analysis > against the other points. (We believe we can afford it by reallocating > unused funds from the "day trip" line; but that's still so

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:34:28PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > A conference dinner during a boat trip looks great, and something that > > attendees will remember, but it also looks quite expensive, even if we > > can afford it thanks to the fantastic work of the sp

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Lucas Lucas Nussbaum writes: > > A conference dinner during a boat trip looks great, and something that > attendees will remember, but it also looks quite expensive, even if we > can afford it thanks to the fantastic work of the sponsorship team. I > was wondering if some compromise solutions

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-24 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/07/13 at 12:20 +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > Hi, > > Now, as a matter of full honesty; by looking at the detailed budget > > source, I see that the amounts were as follows: 50 CHF / person for > > DayTrip, 30 CHF / person for Conference Dinner; both multiplied by 348 > > unique attendees. > >

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 23 juillet 2013 20.05:41, Steve Langasek a écrit : > I understand the frustration at revisiting such questions if it > appears that nothing has changed. That's the core point indeed. I really suffer (but that might be just me) from the permanent revisiting of questions that plagues the

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:54:13AM +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > I really can't believe that this is the best possible use for Debian > > of 28 000 CHF. > At the time, that's what the DPL approved as "good use of Debian money" > in my understanding. The DPL budget approval is an all-but

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 23 juillet 2013 17.55:11, Holger Levsen a écrit : > Hi, > > On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Formally, the proposed plan is _not_ going over the approved > > budget, which had total amounts, and not the (per-person) details > > [1]. The DPL approved a global bu

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Formally, the proposed plan is _not_ going over the approved budget, > which had total amounts, and not the (per-person) details [1]. The DPL > approved a global budget, not a per-person split budget (we have non- > per-person costs as

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mardi, 23 juillet 2013 14.13:19, Holger Levsen a écrit : > On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > ...the DPL > > approved [0] a budget including 10.4 kCHF for the conference dinner > > and 17.4 kCHF for the Day Trip. > > point. > > > Given the above, I think the only reaso

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Raphaël Walther
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:20:59PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > Now, as a matter of full honesty; by looking at the detailed budget > > source, I see that the amounts were as follows: 50 CHF / person for > > DayTrip, 30 CHF / person for Conference Dinner; both multiplied by 348 > > unique attendees.

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Dienstag, 23. Juli 2013, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > ...the DPL > approved [0] a budget including 10.4 kCHF for the conference dinner and > 17.4 kCHF for the Day Trip. point. > Given the above, I think the only reasonable request to the DayTrip > organisers now is to ask them to fit th

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Philipp Hug
Hi, Now, as a matter of full honesty; by looking at the detailed budget > source, I see that the amounts were as follows: 50 CHF / person for > DayTrip, 30 CHF / person for Conference Dinner; both multiplied by 348 > unique attendees. That's correct, we calculated with CHF 50 /p.P for the daytri

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-23 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Moray, Le lundi, 22 juillet 2013 23.02:26, Moray Allan a écrit : > On 2013-07-22 08:53, Holger Levsen wrote: > > On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > >> As you can see the budget for that day is close to CHF 28'000 > >> which is CHF 111 per person (252 attendees). > > > > wow :-

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Raphaël Walther
Hi Moray, On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:02:26PM +0100, Moray Allan wrote: > On 2013-07-22 08:53, Holger Levsen wrote: > >On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > >>As you can see the budget for that day is close to CHF 28'000 > >>which is CHF > >>111 per person (252 attendees). > > > >wow :

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-07-21 17:54, Raphaël Walther wrote: I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip Thanks for working on this. I already posted at my amazement at

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Moray Allan
On 2013-07-22 08:53, Holger Levsen wrote: On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: As you can see the budget for that day is close to CHF 28'000 which is CHF 111 per person (252 attendees). wow :-/ Thats a lot of money for a day out in the green. It is indeed an amazing amount for

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 06:54:14PM +0200, Raphaël Walther wrote: > I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the > conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip JFTR: This does not seem to mean tha

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Hi Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > Le lundi, 22 juillet 2013 12.15:02, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : >> Yes the late dinner is possible according to Le Camp. We also still >> have the third option of having busses at different times from >> Neuchatel to Le Camp and only do dinner at Le Camp to some

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le lundi, 22 juillet 2013 12.15:02, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit : > Yes the late dinner is possible according to Le Camp. We also still > have the third option of having busses at different times from > Neuchatel to Le Camp and only do dinner at Le Camp to some people. … with the only hurdle being th

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
Raphaël Walther writes: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:53:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: >> > I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the >> > conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! >> > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip >> >>

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Raphaël Walther
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 09:53:23AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the > > conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip > > Thanks for all your work on this,

Re: [Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-22 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Sonntag, 21. Juli 2013, Raphaël Walther wrote: > I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the > conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip Thanks for all your work on this, Raphaël! > We

[Debconf-team] Day trip decision

2013-07-21 Thread Raphaël Walther
Hey, I am writting regarding the Day Trip plan. The current plan is to do the conference dinner on the boat on the way back from the day trip! https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip We would need an approval on Tuesday from the team. Then, we will ask the participants to register for the