also sprach Anthony Towns <aj@erisian.com.au> [2014-12-09 00:50 +0100]:
> Sure -- and what Phil and Brian have said is the expected scenario
> is that the actual result of committing to $x in travel grants
> will be an expenditure of $y, where y << x.
Good, so we are all on the same page. I think the details should now
be discussed between the bursaries, budgeting and chairs/DPL.
As for your questions:
> - a municipal rate of 490% ?
Yes, this is Munich maximising business tax (i.e. 490% of the base
business tax rate). Overall, this isn't so much of an expense, so we
did not optimise for this.
> - you may be able to get around VAT by just making a rule of
> consistently using the ex-VAT costs in expenses in the budget. if
> you're worried about the cashflow, an estimate is probably as
> good as the actual number.
We are using ex-VAT costs. VAT is still super-complex in our
situation. But we are well prepared and on top of things.
> - counting the "Debian seed" as income is really poor practice
> imo. if you do so, you should have the same figure as an expense,
> so that the bottom line is still how much dc15 impacts Debian
> financially overall
The Debian seed currently is a liability. It is not income, but you
are right that there ought to be an expense for it.
> - the "scenarios" feature seems horrible to me; there's too many
> fiddly things to click, and it's better to be able to see
> alternate scenarios simultaneously anyway...
It'll be easy to create any form of overview using Calc references,
as long as the data are all there.
> - seems off that the "worst case" expenses still includes $1450 for
> wine&cheese
We have a sponsor for the party, so this will happen regardless.
> - there's currently two scenarios for travel sponsorship: base at
> $30k+$30k, and "worst" at $5k+$7k; that's a pretty big difference
As I said, the numbers are just there for now. They do not mean
anything.
> - the room and board expenses seem to be independent of the scenarios on
> the assumptions page; have you already committed to a minimum occupancy of
> 350?
Yes. With the option to lose exclusivity of the venue by April 2015
— another reason we should make a move on opening registrations
earlier.
Cheers,
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