On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 17:48 -0700, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <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,
There have never been "emergency" funders, just slow corporate decision making or procurement procedures that sometimes delivered commitments close to GUADEC start. > the one time it scraped > through with more sponsorship than outgoings, that money was spent on other > items in the Foundation's budget. Copenhagen produced a surplus that carried into the next year and surplus funds from Kristiansand underwrote the gratis-to-all hackers GNOME Summit at MIT last fall. tim _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
