Hi, On Tue, May 08, 2018 at 01:17:04PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > > Second, sometimes I don't have context what you are referring to. For > > example "The current state of the budget", I actually don't know what kind > > of state you are looking for so I simply guess it. I probably need to ask > > about what exactly you are looking for before answering the questions. > > (AIUI) the last draft of the budget was still a working draft, but nothing you > considered final enough to be presented to the DPL for approval. That's > why (AIUI) the DPL said the "ball is in your court", it's your turn to > ask the DPL to approve the budget. > > In theory you can only start spending money, once the budget is > approved. In practice/reality some money needs to be spend before… > > Once the preliminary budget is approved however, you can have confidence > that the money you spent is on behalf of the Debian project and approved > by the DPL. > > Also: the budget will *never* be final, until half a year *after* > DebConf18. It will change along the way, because you budget for (for > example) 370 people and then 353 show up, so you change the numbers to > reflect reality. > I was understanding "ball is in your court" as "I am in charge of the budget stuff", causing the confusions. Also I was understanding "what's the next step of the budget", as what's the priority of the budgets that needs to spend on next, without putting the context that we have many lists of budgets. Also there are budgets pre-approved by DPL already, and nothing after that was spent under the name of DebConf yet. > > Sorry for my premature reply. I am stressed out because it involves money > > and we are having communication problems. > > Don't worry, you are doing fine. The budget doesnt have to be 100 or > even 95% accurate now, it should be as accurate as possible, but as thie > point in time I think it's great if a budget is in the *right > magnitude*, IOW it shouldn't be more than 50% too few or 150% too much. > (or maybe thats rather for 1-2 months ago and todays budget should > reflect reality with a margin of 85-115% or so.) I do think, if others do treasurer work the budget, or the Local Team is native to English, it will be approved in 1/3 of the time. We do indeed spend too much on useless communication. I will send another email for formal approval. Yao Wei
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