Re: [Debconf-team] budget and number of attendees

[Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>]

Hi,

On Sonntag, 10. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote:
> I was looking at the budget.  Has anyone synced the number of people
> we are planning to pay for with the number of attendees?

I don't think so.
 
> The budget lists income from prof/corp people.  Thus, we can look at
> the total cost of all rooms anyone asks for (we don't need to separate
> sponsored from unsponsored when deciding how many rooms we need to pay
> for).  However, some people are requesting rooms and they are not
> corporate, professional, or sponsored.  These people may not know they
> will be expected to give us money.  If they will give us money, it
> isn't included in the budget.  It is likely a lot of them will decide
> they don't want our accom once they are asked to pay.  What are we
> doing about this category?

include them in the budget? ;)
 
> Here http://debconf-data.alioth.debian.org/stats/rooms-by-date-2.txt
> we see the maximum number of rooms asked for debcamp is around 75
> (average more like 60) and for debconf it is around 175.
> 
> If we exclude the basic, without sponsored accommodation peolpe, that
> drops to:  around 65 for debcamp, around 130 for debconf.
> 
> So, there are around 40 people we need to deal with in the "middle"
> category who we should make sure they know they need to pay (and
> ideally putting them into professional) or removing them from
> accommodation.

what accomodation type did these people request? 

or do we have 40 people who requested sponsored accom and didnt get it?
 
> A similar analysis could be done for food, but since that costs less,
> and hopefully we can pay per actual person, that is less important.

well, yes... but... ;)


cheers,
	Holger