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Re: [Debconf-team] Updated budget for DC14



On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 11:03:09PM +0100, Philipp Hug wrote:
> > The maximum amount committed by Debian to DebConf14 funding from the
> > general fund is $20,000 *less* than the total surplus in the DC13
> > earmark at SPI, which isn't even counting the surplus in the DC13.ch
> > account.  This is on top of DC12 which ran a deficit for the year, but
> > according to the DC12 final report this was made up for by previous
> > years' surplus, implying that DebConf has had a cumulative surplus for
> > the past three years running (at least).  So it's clear that DebConf14
> > is *not* "inheriting" a surplus from DebConf13; the expenses have
> > instead been reauthorized by the DPL from the general funds, for a
> > different (lesser) amount than "the DebConf surplus".

> This is not true. The DC13 earmark at SPI contain all surplusses from
> previous DebConfs including Debian contributions which have not been paid
> back to Debian.

Why is that, if everyone is agreed that surplusses are not rolled over from
year to year?

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