Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-06-01 Thread Clint Adams
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-06-01 Thread micah anderson
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-06-01 Thread Holger Levsen
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
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,

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Gunnar Wolf
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Darst
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Darst
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Jeremy Baron
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Ana Guerrero
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Richard Darst
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-31 Thread Ana Guerrero
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Jimmy Kaplowitz
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Richard Darst
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Anto Recio
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Clint Adams
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. ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debc

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Richard Darst
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

Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Ana Guerrero
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

[Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

2010-05-30 Thread Richard Darst
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