On 27/07/12 23:48, Moray Allan wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:10:34PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote: >> I don't want to give my own opinions on those things, I felt it was >> better to initiate the discussion about a [survey] to find out what the >> wider community feels, nobody has responded to that email though. > > I would like us to do a post-DebConf13 survey, with questions for > people who attended it, for those who watched by video, and questions > on reasons for people not attending in person. Some questions on > people's general preferences/needs for future conferences could fit > into that, as long as we avoid making it too long overall.
Could you add your questions to the thread I started with [survey] in the heading? Or maybe we start a wiki page for it? >> - we should not look at cost, look at value. It costs more: but can >> DebConf reach out to any of the world renowned organisations (both >> universities and businesses) in Switzerland to gain direct or indirect >> subsidies? > > http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid/PriorityList > mentions e.g. "many charitable trusts" -- while formal applications > for funding generally take some time, they should be approached *now* > to sound them out over whether DebConf funding would potentially fit > within their remits, and the potential amounts that might be provided. As hinted in earlier emails, is a deadline needed to have financial/budget details confirmed? >> Given the prestige associated with Switzerland, can we run >> any venture on the side for extra profit, e.g. training? > > I'm not really sure what you mean here, but as with "DebConf is not a > travel agent", it's dangerous to assume that we are good at engaging > in general commercial activities, just because we are good at building > a free OS and manage to arrange a nice conference each year. This could be outsourced or profit share: if space allows, offer members of the community the option to hire rooms at the facility for offering commercial services. They could pay a fee for use of the room, and an extra fee for co-promotion (e.g. having their commercial activity in the program and endorsed by DebConf) As an example: - someone offers 0.5 day training seminar on a specific technology - people ask their employer to pay the training fee for them to attend - employer can pay the fee through the DebConf web site somehow - the trainer keeps some of the money, and some goes to DebConf Let's say 10 people pay 499 GBP each - that is 4990 GBP, or about 7500 CHF. DebConf should get at least 25% of that, maybe 2000 CHF. If there are 10 such events over 2 weeks, there is 20,000 CHF profit. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
