On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 01:30:18PM -0400, micah anderson wrote:
> For the record, breakfast has never been included in the budget. The
> food budget only included two meals. I think having some money for
> coffee and something light would be a good idea, but that doesn't save
> us money, it actuall
On Mon, 31 May 2010 22:37:25 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Ana Guerrero dijo [Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200]:
> > * Cutting in sponsored food, this can be done in several ways:
> > - Do not sponsor breakfast (we did this in México and worked well)
>
> Agree - After all, breakfast is the l
Hi,
On Montag, 31. Mai 2010, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> Some small ideas for cutting money (some of them applied before) in my
> personal order of preference:
>
> * No Sponsored DayTrip. (Althought i am sure this one is already in line)
> Done before in Argentina (sponsored partially IIRC) and Edinbur
Ana Guerrero dijo [Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200]:
> * Cutting in sponsored food, this can be done in several ways:
> - Do not sponsor breakfast (we did this in México and worked well)
Agree - After all, breakfast is the lowest attended meal of all. And
is for most cultures the lightest,
Richard Darst dijo [Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400]:
> [...large ugh...]
>
> - We reword the reconfirmation emails to say "accommodation
> sponsorship decisions forthcoming". This is highly non-ideal, but
> maybe necessary to be honest.
>
> By SOME_DATE that is real soon now, if our fu
Some questions for past sponsorship teams:
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>
> > Things aren't as bad as we originally were thinking last night, but we
> > are not in the clear yet. We are currently p
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 05:14:12PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
> > we have 234 people requesting accommodation sponsorship. Expecting 76
> > of them to n
May have something to do with people that are paying by the day?
-jeremy
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:14, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>> http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
>> we have 234 people request
Hi Richard,
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:08:25AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> http://rkd.zgib.net/http/debconf/registration-data.txt
> we have 234 people requesting accommodation sponsorship. Expecting 76
> of them to not reconfirm is... quite a lot.
What it is exactly the relation between "Pa
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:10:41AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:
>
> All great points. Some countervailing good news: as people fail to reconfirm
> by
> June 10, we
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 01:10:41AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:
>
> All great points. Some countervailing good news: as people fail to reconfirm
> by
> June 10, we
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 10:16:39PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:
All great points. Some countervailing good news: as people fail to reconfirm by
June 10, we will regain some meaningful chunk of food/lodging/travel money.
Everything el
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> Things aren't as bad as we originally were thinking last night, but we
> are not in the clear yet. We are currently promising more money than
> we have, which is a bad idea, especially when it is two months before
> Debconf. For ou
hola a todas
Richard Darst escribió:
> Ana,
>
> Thanks for your suggestion for helping to trim our budget. We had
> thought/planned on some of them, but some were new. So that everyone
> knows the current plans with respect to these:
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200, Ana Guerrero wro
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 08:50:33PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> What do other people think about these ideas?
I like the no-dinner and $10/day ideas, but I wonder how
they would impact our attendees.
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Ana,
Thanks for your suggestion for helping to trim our budget. We had
thought/planned on some of them, but some were new. So that everyone
knows the current plans with respect to these:
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 02:24:10AM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> * No Sponsored DayTrip. (Althought i am su
On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
>
> [0] Please see http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Budget for
Thanks for this link it really gives a clear overview.
Some small ideas for cutting money (some of them applied before) in my
personal order of preference:
* No
Hello everyone,
I was talking with some people last night, and it seems that I'm not
the only one worried about our budget. After I got home last night, I
tried doing some more budget calculations, based on our knowledge of
current costs, the state of sponsorships, and rough approximations of
the
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