<quote who="Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation"> > GUADEC has been sustainable for six years and survived economic up and > down cycles. GUADEC planning is a good place for discussing next year's > conference model.
... with emergency sponsorship from existing advisory board members, inconsistent and badly communicated registration fee structures, and no structured approach to bankrolling each conference through the profits of the last [1]. I don't really regard that as a sustainable model. - Jeff [1] For the two years I was on the board, the initial delivery of financial information was at least 9-12 months late, and the one time it scraped through with more sponsorship than outgoings, that money was spent on other items in the Foundation's budget. -- OSCON 2005: August 1st-5th http://conferences.oreillynet.com/os2005/ "It's all a blur of a bunch of people having battles on different plants (sic)."- Mary Gardiner on Star Wars _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
