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Re: [Debconf-team] DC17 budget approval request




On 11/04/2017 18:22, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
> On 2017-04-11 07:26, Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for this updated budget!
>>
>> On 09/04/2017 20:44, Louis-Philippe Véronneau wrote:
>>> We got some good news regarding sponsorship that should be announced
>>> shortly.
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, madduck helped me to make the currency conversion work. Here
>>> is an updated version of the ledger in USD. The only thing that changed
>>> is the sponsors line.
>>>
>>
>> Great! This simplifies reading and tracking of the budget.
>>
>>> Forex rates used:
>>>   2017-04-09 19:16:23 USD 1,33988 CAD
>>>   2017-04-09 19:16:23 EUR 1,41884 CAD
>>>   2017-04-09 19:16:23 CHF 1,32854 CAD
>>>
>>> *Budgeted expenses*:
>>>
>>>           745.21 USD    advisory:annual-report
>>>         1,490.41 USD    childcare:misc
>>>         7,265.76 USD    confdinner
>>>         1,304.11 USD      alcohol
>>>         2,980.83 USD      meals
>>
>> Any of those two include non-alcoholic beverage?
> 
> Sure. I think the conference dinner is the only occasion where we will
> be paying for alcohol (only one drink on the house), but we will be
> providing other drinks (Kombucha, soft-drinks, juice, etc.) for people
> who do not drink alcohol.
> 
> We will have all the latitude to do this since we are providing the
> drinks, not the caterer.
> 

Ok.

>>
>>>           745.21 USD      transport
>>>         2,235.62 USD      venue
>>>         5,961.65 USD    content
>>>           745.21 USD    entertainment:band
>>>           223.56 USD    fees:registration
>>>           745.21 USD    fulfillment:banners
>>>         1,602.19 USD    incidentals
>>>           111.78 USD      bank
>>>           745.21 USD      frontdesk
>>>           372.60 USD      phone
>>>           372.60 USD      transport
>>>         1,490.41 USD    insurance:event
>>>           372.60 USD    openweekend
>>>        10,948.57 USD    outreach
>>>        10,203.37 USD      diversity
>>>           745.21 USD      press
>>>        80,631.34 USD    roomboard
>>>         9,389.60 USD      debcamp
>>>           782.47 USD        breakfast
>>>         2,980.83 USD        classrooms
>>>         2,347.40 USD        dinner
>>>         1,490.41 USD        hotel
>>>         1,788.50 USD        lunch
>>>        71,241.74 USD      debconf
>>>         2,980.83 USD        breakfast
>>>         6,706.86 USD        classrooms
>>>        11,178.10 USD        dinner
>>>        10,134.81 USD        hotel
>>>        11,178.10 USD        lunch
>>>        29,063.05 USD        mcgill
>>>         4,471.24 USD    swag
>>>         1,490.41 USD      bags
>>>         1,490.41 USD      shipping
>>>         1,490.41 USD      tshirts
>>>        29,808.26 USD    travel
>>
>> Is it planned to invite press to DC17?
> 
> It is. There is a ~750 USD budget in the outreach:press account for
> that. Last meeting we decided to invite LWN and Linux Magazine and offer
> them to pay for food for one person for the whole conference.
> 
> I don't know for Linux Magazine, but anarcat has been doing a lot of
> stuff for LWN lately and is based in Montreal. I'm sure he'll be happy
> to write a few articles.
> 

Ok. Though if the contact from Linux Magazine is not based in Montreal,
I imagine he will need more than 750 USD. In any case, We can extend this
budget line later if needed.

> We have not talked about doing a press conference for local medias
> though. A local newspaper already wrote to us asking for more details on
> the conf and on ways to stay in touch. Maybe we could arrange something
> during Open Day?
> 

If we can manage to get enough attention from local press/media, then yes
it would be definitely great!

> Even considering these expenses, we will still have some money left
> budgeted in this account. If someone has ideas on neat things we could
> do, don't hesitate to reach out to us.
> 
>>
>>>        27,200.04 USD    venue
>>>         2,149.92 USD    video:shipping
>>
>> Are you planning to purchase new video hardware? I guess a specific request
>> will be made for that independently of DebConf17 expenses?
> 
> Yeah, if we ever ever get to coordinate enough for this project to go
> through, we'll ask for money independently of DebConf17 expenses.
> 

Ok.

>>
>>>           287.25 USD  expenses
>>>           157.25 USD    fees
>>>            31.31 USD      misc
>>>           125.94 USD      registration
>>>           130.00 USD    swag
>>> --------------------
>>>       175,851.58 USD
>>>
>>> *Budgeted income*:
>>>
>>>         1,490.41 USD    confdinner:meals
>>>        13,413.72 USD    roomboard:debconf
>>>         1,490.41 USD      breakfast
>>>           745.21 USD      classrooms
>>>         5,589.05 USD      dinner
>>>         5,589.05 USD      lunch
>>>       150,871.44 USD    sponsors
>>
>> How much of this is committed as of today?
> 
> I merged the sponsors:committed & sponsors:expected accounts since
> madduck told me it was a weird thing to do.
> 

Well, I don't find it weird :-) It helps to know how much of it is secured
and how much is still uncertain. At least, that's how I read those numbers.

> At the moment, 100% of the sponsors income listed (150,871.44 USD) is
> committed income. We had a breakthrough recently and gained two new
> platinum sponsors. That helped a great deal.
> 

That's great news! Well done.

>>
>>>           223.56 USD    swag
>>>            74.52 USD      bags
>>>           149.04 USD      tshirts
>>> --------------------
>>>       165,999.13 USD
>>>
>>
>> And thanks for your work on this!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> 

I do not have further questions about the budget. The same goes for the
DebConf Committee. Therefore, I approve this budget [1].

[1] Up to commit 858e2d7d2ff1780dab0a8d8feab8aeef9acbcef6 in
ssh://git.debian.org/git/debconf-data/dc17.git

Regards,

-- 
Mehdi

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