Re: [Debconf-team] Travel sponsorship money (and other money things)

[Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org>]

On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 12:42 -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> - DebConf11 surplus (about 25 k$)
> - Debian guarentees (10 k$)

This looks like double-counting to me, as my impression was that the
amount which the DPL agreed to extend as a guarantee would already count
against the surplus from last year.

But I also don't think that it fits with my view of what was agreed on
DebConf funding to *aim* to spend that "surplus", rather than to keep it
for problems that will doubtless occur in future years, if not this one.

> We haven't talked about travel sponsorship yet, or identified where
> that money will come from.  I think that it is reasonable to ask for
> DC11 surplus to be able to send out travel sponsorship confirmations
> (and then hopefully not use that surplus).  What do you all think?

That sounds reasonable to me *iff* we are fairly sure that in the end we
will get that much money from somewhere else -- how firmly do people
believe that we will?

-- 
Moray