Re: [Debconf13-ch] [Debconf-team] Question for DebConf13 bids: Costs
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On 25.01.2012 20:32, Moray Allan wrote:
It appears (sponsorship team please correct me here), that the
monetary sponsorship brought in for DebConf11 was less than €40 000.
DebConf13 bids: if approximately that amount of money was brought in
from the traditional category of DebConf sponsors, how would you make
the finances balance to allow DebConf to happen in the venue you
propose?
Answers might include suggestions of how to reduce costs by going for
less desirable options or removing some items from the budget, and
more-than-speculative possibilities for obtaining local sponsorship,
possibly in-kind. Simply saying "we will raise much more sponsorship"
does not answer the question. :)
We hope in more sponsors, and possibly we could ask to debian.ch donors
to give something for DebConf.
Our budget (in wiki) is set as the maximum costs, we could have some
discounts from camp, it seems also that we can have the refund of VAT
(but the VAT is low in Switzerland).
Anyway, the venue + accommodation are cheap. About food: we have the
option to cook ourselves (by finding volunteers to cook for many
people). In this case I think we should divide people: sponsored and
non-sponsored, not to cook too much or maybe we can use this option only
for lunch, or only for some days (an outside grill party, ..).
Other options:
- raise the prices for non sponsored attendee
- sell more debian.ch stuffs (with a "debconf tax") (see e.g. our
T-shirt, umbrella, knives). But so debian.ch should take the risk to
have unsold stuffs, and anyway I would not count for much income.
- because there are no bars and restaurants nearly the camp, we could
set a debian tax to beer and other stuffs (anyway I expect that such
drinks will costs less than in normal bars).
- debcamp in Zurich or Geneva and using the bunkers for accommodation
and university for network + rooms (but network and video team will have
less time to setup stuffs). Or using only few building for DebCamp and
share the campus with other groups.
- In emergency we could move debconf to Geneva or Zurich: bunkers +
university (but venue and bunkers are far).
Other ideas?
ciao
cate
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