On 11/03/15 at 13:16 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Lucas Nussbaum <leader@debian.org> [2015-03-11 11:18 +0100]: > > My other question is about the travel sponsorship amount. 30k€ seems > > quite low to me. How does it compare to past years? > > DC14 : 45k USD incl. newbies initiative, 36k USD from Debian > (still don't have the numbers on how this was used) > > DC13 : 25k CHF plus 20k CHF newbies, 20k CHF from Debian > (no numbers on how this was used) > > DC12 : could not find budget > > DC11 : 35k EUR, no further information found. > > So yes, we're at the low end of things. > > There is a position in the budget (backed travel sponsorship), which > is currently 0. Feel free to pour any Debian funds into it. Just let > me know! ;) So there's a number of things that might be nice to have, but are not mandatory for the success of DebConf: - additional travel sponsorship (based on a recommendation from the bursaries team, = do they recommend we sponsor more people than currently possible?) - social events: conf dinner, day trip - diversity outreach program - other social stuff: band, karaoke I think that it would be better to wait for a recommandation from the bursaries team about additional funding before we commit to spending money on some of the other items from this list. Put differently, if Debian funding is needed, I might prefer to direct it first to additional travel sponsorship, rather than to social stuff. Would that work for you? Lucas
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