Hi cate, On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 02:46:06PM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: > Hello Neil and Martin, > > The Chairs, after listening the opinions of the team and after a lot of > discussion, recommend the DPL to increase the DebConf budget by 4000 EUR > for the conference dinner. With the new income from fundraising, this > increase will not compromise a balanced budget. Saying that, until > better numbers (reconfirmation period or new commitment from sponsors) > we cannot release further funds to Daytrip, transportation for > conference dinner, or any other expense which was not already allocated > in the approved budget. > > We still think the conference dinner is very expensive, but we > acknoweledge that an outdoor conference dinner is a good addition to the > social part of DebConf. As we acknowledge the importance of it to the > local team. We trust Martin to negotiate and try his best to reduce the > real expenses, as he stated in the request mail. > > We have a high participation rate this year, and we really enjoy it, but > this caused us many troubles and result in a very tight budget. The team > should continue to fundraise and to control expenses, in order to give > our contributors and attedees the best DebConf ever done. > Great, thanks for this! By any chance, do you have a copy of the budget handy? If not, I can go digging around in the leader@ archives - but there's a /lot/ of spam in there. I'll also see if there's any more companies I can prod to sponsor DebConf - I think that making sure people can /get/ to the conference dinner is quite important, and I don't know how accessible it is by public transport - Martin? Thanks, Neil --
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