---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: Re: DebConf "Legal" BoF continued - lets get it to a Delegation Date: Sunday 11 June 2006 06:52 From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 03:27:48PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > Until now I only now of krooger who "complained" about travel > sponsorship. I know other people complained about it after the Helsinki conference. > Yes. Feedback for speakers/talks is planned within the > http://wiki.debian.org/DebConfNextSoftware site. Having something > similar for orga could be nice, but not many people seem to critize > anyways. (We have some in -discuss at the moment). You'll usually get a lot more suggestions if you ask for them; uninvited criticism tends to be demotivating, after all, and presumably most people would rather an imperfect conference than none at all. This isn't about telling y'all what to do, it's just about making sure that having run a few conferences already you don't get stuck in a rut thinking you've found the Right Way to do a debconf and not worry about input from others. LCA does that by giving the conference to a completely new group of people every single year, and the benefits we get from that vastly outweigh the losses due to the new crew having zero experience. Things are different for debconf, but given the huge variety in venues and people, and the larger sponsorship budget debconf has, it should be a much more dynamic conference from year to year than LCA, not a notably less one. > Just to make this clear - there shouldnt be money used from Debians > ressources[1], only that that DebConf itself got (ie from Andreas talking > to sponsors). I'm not sure that's sensible -- IME you usually end up with a cashflow problem in that the sponsors don't get their paperwork in order in time to send you money before your venue and such start asking for money; and since we've got money in the bank in various organisations, the only real concern is to make sure that we end up getting enough sponsorship/registration/whateevr to cover the costs fairly soon after the conference is over. And if there's more money than was actually spent, we can then put that towards work meetings, or "summer of code"-type projects or anything else we think is worthwhile. Personally, I'd much rather have the orga team [0] present a balanced budget to the project, then get money as they need it from SPI etc. Cheers, aj [0] The "orga team" always makes me think of a bunch of killer whales... -------------------------------------------------------
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