In a message of Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:22:25 +0100, Paul Boddie writes: > >> When they moved from Washington DC, PyCon US solved their venue >> problem by using hotel conference centres, which meant that they had >> to guarantee hotel rooms. As long as the conference expanded this was >> OK, but this year the consequences were that PyCon lost, I think, >> around $200000, and are liable for $300000 guarantees for 2010. > >Wow! I thought it was only EuroPython that lost money. ;-)
Historically, I think we have been very good at making a small amount of money each year. We've got to go over the final accounting for last year, but it looks like we lost something like 300 - 1000 pounds, most of which can be explained by me saying something on the order of 'oh hell, we have this extra money from last year, and those printed conference schedules look _so_ _cool_ that we should revisit our decision to only print them if we found a print sponsor. just a comment in from the treasurer attatched to the Swedish bank account ... Laura _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
