Re: [Debconf-team] A better budget analysis
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:06:12PM +0100, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> In my understanding the professional fee was always intended to cover
> the per person costs. These include their share of the fixed costs. The
> numbers darst and hug presented as per person costs are the marginal
> costs of an additional person per week. While this is a useful number
> for internal calculations I don't think this is a reasonable basis for
> any fee.
600 CHF is still quite a bit higher than actual costs (of course, this
strongly depends on the number of people). However, historically,
professional is bed+food costs for one week, not total_conf_cost /
number_of_people.
According to current predictions, one person-week costs approx 440
CHF, total_costs/400 person-weeks = 480 CHF. Of course, this goes up
the fewer people we have.
Here's an interesting historical tidbit: DC12 prof fee was 600 USD
(about 600 CHF). Why? Because originally, there was a very expensive
venue planned. Once we realized that was not financially viable
(Spring 2012), we moved to UCA + some hotels, which we could get a
good discount on. Venue changes aren't a sign of failure, or
something bad, they are sometimes just what has to be done...
- Richard
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