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? -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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