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[Debconf-team] Budget (hopefully) ready for Thursday's discussion / approval



Dear all,

Thanks for all the feedback on the budget. I've updated the version
in Git, so please obtain the ODS file from here:

  http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc15.git/tree/budget/budget.ods

I refrain from creating a PDF because it's a pain to format. Sorry.

Here are the notable changes made since last week's meeting:

   1. Added the income from simplified VAT claiming. This is
      a complex issue, the details (in German) may be found here:

        http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debconf-data/dc15.git/tree/verein/steuern/2014-05-16-Aktennotiz_Besteuerung.txt

      In three sentences: We opted for a simplification by which we
      don't net VAT collected with VAT paid, but just reduce all VAT
      collected by 7 % points. Since most of our expenses are to the
      youth hostel and hence VAT exempt, this effectively means we
      take in an additional 7 % on top of sponsor money, but we also
      have to pay gross prices on all expenses, so minus the 19% we
      pay on all other expenses.

      Definitely easier to budget anyway, and it added 9k to the
      income, which I thus distributed (see below).

   2. Added 100 additional shirts for orga to the calculation (see
      assumptions tab). Might just be too much.

   3. Took 1k from diversity outreach and made it available for press
      outreach (e.g. LWN).

   4. Upped travel sponsorship to 30k.

   5. Increased budget for lanyards to 1k (2,50 € each, incl. VAT).

   6. Added an item furniture rentals for the job fair and showcase
      booths; rough estimate, probably too high.

   7. Added a line for 8 sponsor logo banners to be displayed around
      the venue.

   8. Added a line for miscellaneous day trip expenses (food is
      separate anyway).

   9. Upped video team budget to 10k.

  10. Downed child care to 1k, basically just incidentals and
      whatnot, we'll see what this actually turns out. We *won't* be
      paying child care attendants with this as we should not get
      involved here (other than facilitating babysitters).

  11. Increased incidentals, including a 5% buffer position in case
      the budget doesn't square out everywhere.

  12. Added some notes to the expenses tab to help people figure out
      what's to be sorted under each item and where to find stuff.

I hope this is now ready for approval. If there are more comments or
questions, please try to send them ASAP before the meeting on
Thursday.

As a final motivational message: we're 80% funded and have 5 months
to go. If we meet our funding goal, we can start sponsoring more
people to attend, which is one of our core values.

-- 
 .''`.   martin f. krafft <madduck@debconf.org> @martinkrafft
: :'  :  DebConf orga team
`. `'`
  `-  DebConf15: Heidelberg, Germany: http://debconf15.debconf.org
      DebConf16: Cape Town: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf16

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