Re: [Debconf-team] Budget tradeoffs vs amount of fundraising

[David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>]

Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net> writes:

> - All options have sponsored day trip / conference dinner.  With the
>   large magnitude of monies we are talking about, removing this this
>   doesn't affect very much.  Removing this last minute could close ~10
>   kCHF deficits.
> - I exclude income based on bed upselling or bar profit, I'm not sure
>   it'll be so much.  This is small compared to magnitudes below (~10
>   kCHF in localteam budget).

I hesitate a bit to comment on this, because I recognize it is
tangential to your main point. However, I do think that budgeting a
sponsored day trip while budgeting zero travel sponsorship will leave a
bad taste in many people's mouths.  To put it another way, I'm fine with
waiting to see if all the essentials are paid for before considering
travel sponsorship, but I don't consider a sponsored day trip to be an
essential aspect of DebConf.

Thanks for all your work on budget analysis,

d