Hi Martin, Thanks a lot for all your work, and for dealing with the required amount of bikeshedding (especially mine). At this point, I think that the question I am (as DPL) being asked, is whether we all can go forward given the current status and those projections, and deal with the possible fallouts together (which means that, if something fails very badly, we are fine with using Debian funds to cover for it). I think that the answer to that is "yes, we want to take this risk" (which this year, isn't that huge). However, before I commit to that answer, I still would like DebConf chairs to state whether they are fine with the current budget, i.e., whether all income and expenses are included and at a reasonable level according to their DebConf experience. Of course some of them will need to be refined (the video team budget is still waiting for feedback from the team AFAIK), but as Martin outlined, we have some space for that. Regarding this: On 21/03/15 at 09:50 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > If this is not possible because you need to keep the option open to > increase the bursaries budget to X,¹ then I suggest Debian commit to > giving us X. The DebConf budget already includes 30,000€ for travel sponsorship, and the budget does not include any contribution from Debian funds at this point. I agree that this is a reasonable level for DC15 (it should probably be re-assessed for DC16, where the overall travel costs will likely be higher -- let's not assume that 30k€ will work for every edition of DebConf). I agree that if more funds are need for travel sponsorship, Debian funds could be used. I have one small request: during the discussions, it was very useful to frame the current assumptions (travel sponsorship amount, % sponsored, nb attendees, etc.) in an historical perspective. Could you add a tab in the budget with the historical data you know about? I know it's also in emails etc, but it will be handy in the future to have it somewhere easy to find. (pointers to emails in the archives could work too, but debconf-team@ is not archived on lists.d.o) Lucas
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