Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

[Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org>]

Richard Darst dijo [Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:00:48PM -0400]:
> Hi,
> 
> This email presents different scenarios based on the amount of
> fundraising accomplished.  For each amount of amount of fundraising, I
> list one option of what we can afford.  Of course, money can be
> shifted around in various ways, but the general magnitudes hold.  The
> goal here is to allow everyone to see the trade-offs, and judge for
> themselves what is acceptable and likely.

Thanks a lot for this analysis, Richard. It allowed me to understand
much better the overall situation. Also, basing the overview on
percentage of DC12, I managed to (I hope) clear a bit the fog in front
of my eyes and get a better grasp on reality :)

While it's still basically impossible to forecast the amount we will
be getting, I expect we will be able to make between the 150% and 200%
brackets you mention — Still too little to be happy and relax, but
definitively enough for a better, productive work.

I know some people have argued on specific points for your first set
of numbers, but it makes sense for me to put it anyway in a table for
visual comparison. I assume the 46 unsponsored people you mention in
your one week option mean the people you expect to pay prof/corp.

      2WK-LC		         1WK-LC	        2WK-IL

100%  45 person/weeks		 40+100 people  120 person/weeks (40+80)
      0 travel			 10KCHF travel	0 travel

150%  100 person/weeks (50+100)	 40+150 people	225 person/weeks (50+175)
      0 travel	       		 30KCHF travel	0 travel

200%  150 person/weeks (50+150)	 60+280 people  250 person/weeks (50+200)
      20KCHF travel    		 30KCHF travel  20KCHF travel

250%  230 person/weeks (75+200)	 100+300 people 305 person/weeks (75+230)
      30KCHF travel    		 30KCHF travel  30KCHF travel

300%  355 person/weeks (100+300) 100+300 people 355 person/weeks (100+300)
      30KCHF travel    		 30KCHF travel	30KCHF travel

Just as a note, I am not sure the numbers mean the same — Your amounts
for DebCamp+DebConf people don't sum up to the person/weeks while
Daniel's do. But lets pretend the discrepancy is not there.

So, as it has been discussed, lower sponsorship makes more flexibility
more needed. 

So, in short: In the specific 150-200% range, for a two week long
conference, Interlaken basically allows us 100 person/weeks more with
the rest being approximately equal.

(damn, I wanted to write a bit more... but I have to go now. Anyway,
I'll continue catching up with this huge backlog in a couple of hours
- And will probably remember what I wanted to say :-/ )