Re: [Debconf-team] [Debconf-discuss] venue issues (renamed)
On 27/07/12 23:48, Moray Allan wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 08:10:34PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
>> I don't want to give my own opinions on those things, I felt it was
>> better to initiate the discussion about a [survey] to find out what the
>> wider community feels, nobody has responded to that email though.
>
> I would like us to do a post-DebConf13 survey, with questions for
> people who attended it, for those who watched by video, and questions
> on reasons for people not attending in person. Some questions on
> people's general preferences/needs for future conferences could fit
> into that, as long as we avoid making it too long overall.
Could you add your questions to the thread I started with [survey] in
the heading? Or maybe we start a wiki page for it?
>> - we should not look at cost, look at value. It costs more: but can
>> DebConf reach out to any of the world renowned organisations (both
>> universities and businesses) in Switzerland to gain direct or indirect
>> subsidies?
>
> http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/Switzerland/Bid/PriorityList
> mentions e.g. "many charitable trusts" -- while formal applications
> for funding generally take some time, they should be approached *now*
> to sound them out over whether DebConf funding would potentially fit
> within their remits, and the potential amounts that might be provided.
As hinted in earlier emails, is a deadline needed to have
financial/budget details confirmed?
>> Given the prestige associated with Switzerland, can we run
>> any venture on the side for extra profit, e.g. training?
>
> I'm not really sure what you mean here, but as with "DebConf is not a
> travel agent", it's dangerous to assume that we are good at engaging
> in general commercial activities, just because we are good at building
> a free OS and manage to arrange a nice conference each year.
This could be outsourced or profit share: if space allows, offer members
of the community the option to hire rooms at the facility for offering
commercial services. They could pay a fee for use of the room, and an
extra fee for co-promotion (e.g. having their commercial activity in the
program and endorsed by DebConf)
As an example:
- someone offers 0.5 day training seminar on a specific technology
- people ask their employer to pay the training fee for them to attend
- employer can pay the fee through the DebConf web site somehow
- the trainer keeps some of the money, and some goes to DebConf
Let's say 10 people pay 499 GBP each - that is 4990 GBP, or about 7500
CHF. DebConf should get at least 25% of that, maybe 2000 CHF. If there
are 10 such events over 2 weeks, there is 20,000 CHF profit.
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