On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 07:52:24PM -0400, micah wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > We are one month away from Debconf and not a single person has received > confirmation about reimbursements for travel or food. This is bad due to > the nature of flight costs and travel arrangements. I hate to be gone > for a week+ and then run back in the room screaming about emergencies, > but I i think we are past the point where we should have notified people > about sponsorship requests.
Budget-wise, we have basically already budgeted for / have money to cover: - All the food we promised (and it looks like we'll be able to do it logistically, too.) - Travel reimbursement, Queue A I think confirmations of these should be sent out immediately. (for food/accom, if someone make a text I'll send it to the relevant people. I don't have the bursary data.) Right now the overall budget is reading about -4000 (deficit). My estimate of our margin of error is ± 10k, though since yesterday we have done well with adding extra expenses, so it's more accurate now than yesterday. > So this set of questions is: a. do we request an amount from debian on > the order of 20k or more (if more, what is it)? b. do we fund x% of > Queue B? (where x would be somewhere between 70% or 100%) I think that 20k from debian would be a good idea, for a general "not break our budget and not burn the entire surplus" standpoint. I'd rather ask for extra to ensure a surplus than risk a defacto loan due to spending too much. We could then spend a lot of this on travel sponsorship, queue B. I am ambivalent about this, it would be very nice but I wouldn't push it since we are already going much deeper into last year's surplus than past years. - Richard -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 346 days, 19:39 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
