Hello Martin, On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:13:59PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > Dear chairs, > > following tonight's meeting, I've committed the latest budget > proposal. I would *really* appreciate if you could review and > approve this within the next 10 days and recommend to Lucas to do > the same. We need to make some decisions that require an approved > budget *this* month. > Noted and working on this.
> The notable changes I made in response to the decisions in the > meeting were: > > 1. Add a new item for travel sponsorship of DebConf-only volunteers > (+3k) and re-allocate funds to meet that. > > I took 5k from video because so far I met noone that could explain > how 10k would be used by the video team. If new hardware needs to be > bought, I suggest that this be done on Debian funds where it can be > properly amorticised. > There is a video meeting scheduled, let's see if this picture changes after that. > This means an additional 2k were freed up. > > 2. 1k of those freed up 2k went to the invited speakers budget, as > they are expected to cover room&board themselves. > I'm assuming that "they" here is the Content team, right? > 3. 500 € went to a new budget line for post-conf expenses relating > to the DC15 legal entity. This is a new item, undiscussed, and > I want it. > Ok, no problem. Although "I want it" is usually not a valid justification, I'm sure there is one. So just for the sake of transparency, could you elaborate more on that? As it is a new and undiscussed item, describing those kind of expenses would would assure that everyone is in the same page. > 4. 500 € went into unforeseen expenses. > > 5. Given that we managed to acquire a platinum sponsor just before > the meeting, I updated the worst-case expense scenario and > brought it closer to the base case. 18k of those 20k went to > travel (see above, it was raised from 15k to 33k). The rest was > spread into incidentals, insurance, and consultancy costs. > > If there are open questions, please find me on IRC. > Will do. Thanks, Tassia. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
