Re: [Debconf-team] Discussing our budgeting and sponsorship situation

[Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net>]

On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 07:16:44PM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:

> Things aren't as bad as we originally were thinking last night, but we
> are not in the clear yet.  We are currently promising more money than
> we have, which is a bad idea, especially when it is two months before
> Debconf.  For our summary, see
>   http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Budget

They are actually worse than we thought last night, not better:

  http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/Budget

While working late last night, apparently I didn't multiply food costs
by two, for two meals per day (even though the data files on my web
server were correct).

So, we are actually have a $48000 greater shortfall than we calculated
earlier today.

If meals costed $10/meal, we would be have a $17000 greater shortfall
than we did now, AND attendee fees would be less.

If we only did one meal per day, then we would be as bad as I said
earlier, AND we would get fewer attendee fees since they'd be paying
for fewer meals.

As a quick check, 350 * 7 * (53+30) = 203350 which is more than the
entire budget I said before.


So, in summary, We (really) Need To Talk.

- Richard

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