The budget may be available, but are the videos actually worth that value? "Just because we have budget, doesn't mean we have to spend it."
Geez. 15k euros is a LOT of money. Opportunity cost... some new hardware? Maybe another part-time infra admin? The question of "can we get these recorded?" was put out there, sure. But just a question, rather than "spend whatever it takes to get the video". At 15k, it seems rather extravagant to me. Seems we can put that amount of cash to other/better uses. As a Director, I'm -1 on this expense. Just one vote of many, but that's my thinking. I don't see the value. Cheers, -g On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Ross Gardler <rgard...@opendirective.com> wrote: > In the last board meeting I was asked if we could re-instate the plan to > record all sessions at ACEU now that it looked to be in good financial health. > > Paul has kindly got a quote for us from the arena and they will do us HD > video of all 6 tracks for circa €15000 (exc. VAT). We can afford this in the > current budget projects since Nick and co have managed to sell the conference > out (well done folks). Furthermore the ASF money we earmarked is currently > unspent. I have asked Nick, as conference chair, to approve this and have > indicated that I will take responsibility for it in the unlikely event that > we need to dip into ASF funds to pay for it (on the assumption that the board > are still comfortable with the budget approved for ConCom). > > I also indicated that the ComDev PMC will take responsibility for use of the > video after the event. This is *just* recording the video and audio. There is > no post-production work included in this price. My current thinking is that > we will simply make the video available to the appropriate PMCs and they can > do whatever post-processing they want to do. It is possible that the ComDev > PMC will do some limited post-production but I'm not going to commit to that > right now since that would be a voluntary effort. > > Nick has not yet given his approval so there is still time to ask us to slow > down on this, but not much since the event is next week. Contracts will be > changing hands with NewThinking soon. > > Ross > > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > OpenDirective > http://opendirective.com > >
