On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 07:08:47AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 03:40:08PM +0200, Philipp Hug wrote: > > > My understanding is that the proposal does exceed the stated budget for > > > the conference dinner, which is what makes it important to have the > > > analysis against the other points. (We believe we can afford it by > > > reallocating unused funds from the "day trip" line; but that's still > > > something we should decide about.) > > > The cost for dinner consists of the 2-hour boat trip + dinner on the boat. > > Our original plan for the daytrip also included a 1hour boat trip. > > So it is reasonable to split the cost of the boat trip between the daytrip > > and conference dinner which makes it fit within the budget perfectly. > > > https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf13/DayTrip > > Can you please point me at the cost of the one-hour boat ride option? > Looking at the 2h boat ride + dinner, the total is 14102 CHF; the conference > dinner budget is 10440 CHF; this is a deficit of 3662 CHF, but I don't know > how much the 1h boat ride would cost us. Perhaps this really does all fit > in the budget, or is close enough that we should not be micromanaging here - > but that's currently not clear to me. :/ According to their quote it would cost us CHF 5'076. On my side I didn't look at it this way. Just pool everything together and try to make an amazing Day Trip & Dinner for the project. That's all. > If it does fit in the budget when looked at this way, then as the budget has > already been approved, I support Raphaël and Didier moving forward with this > plan. Even if some of us don't think this is the best use of the money, > it's not fair to those doing the work to come in at the last minute and move > the goalposts on them after they've already come up with a plan that fits > the budget they were given. Cheers, Raphaël
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