Hi, Here's a quick summary of what was said on irc during this week's status meeting for the Perl QA Hackathon 2012 (based on the irc logs).
Progress: - we contacted all sponsors from past hackathons, and also started to look for other sponsors - some success already: + DuckDuckGo augmented its donation to $1500 + Dyn sponsors $500 + Dijkmat sponsors €1000 + Jaguar Network sponsors €200 - the budget at the time of the meeting was short of about 2500 EUR - we have started to discuss options in case the budget falls short: + sponsor up to a given percentage of the expenses + sponsor up to a fixed amount for everyone + ask if some people can switch from "sponsored" to "self-funded" (i.e. reduce the number of people sponsored) - we are still waiting for 2-3 sponsors (who gave positive replies, but without any figure) - mdk is also waiting for some sponsors (tpf, lovefilm and net-a-porter) - mdk asked tpf again if they can sponsor at least rjbs - mdk pinged net-a-porter again - the French Perl Mongueurs may increase their donation (possibly at the last possible moment, as a "last resort emergency" measure) - we now have a PayPal "donate" button on the website - we accept PayPal donations in three currencies: €, $, £ - the "last call for participation" has been sent, and includes a plea to the community to use the PayPal donate button - mdk is going to do a general blog post thanking sponsors and shouting for more this weekend - we have about 35 attendess, with room for 40 at least - we changed some of the twin bed rooms to "quadruple room" (1 double bed, 2 single), such diminishing the cost per attendee (we'll put 3 people per room) - BooK plans to mail to the attendees that haven't filled in their info - he also plans to bug some people we want to have, but haven't registered yet - we have collected some food restrictions on the wiki: http://2012.qa-hackathon.org/qa2012/wiki?node=Catering Since the meeting, a few more things happened: - Dyn increased its sponsorship from $500 to $2000! - several people (from Japan) made donations through PayPal - the budget is now help in three currencies - BooK requested 3 more twin rooms to be upgrade to quadruple, thus hopefully bringing the number of sponsored bed to 23 Next meeting: irc://irc.perl.org/perl-qa Thursday January 26th, 13:00 CET (Europe/Paris). -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) He who marries for money never marries for real. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #42 (Epic))