Taking a look at all the active tickets in the fudcon-planning trac, I see several that are related to money and plane travel.
I've sorted them here by current owner, and added my comments.
mspevack:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/84 -- pending resolution from Ricky, who's going to get me the flights he prefers. This flight is pretty cheap, so no issues.
jsmith:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/73 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one too, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next APAC FUDCon.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/55 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next LATAM FUDCon
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 11:40:55PM -0500, Max Spevack wrote:
Taking a look at all the active tickets in the fudcon-planning trac, I see several that are related to money and plane travel.
I've sorted them here by current owner, and added my comments.
mspevack:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/84 -- pending resolution from Ricky, who's going to get me the flights he prefers. This flight is pretty cheap, so no issues.
jsmith:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/73 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one too, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next APAC FUDCon.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/55 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next LATAM FUDCon
FWIW, +1 on these.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
Note this request reads like a request from a user in the community who's trying to learn more and meet people, as opposed to presenting goals for attendance. No value judgment here, just pointing this out because it might diverge somewhat from the criteria I understood for awarding subsidies.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
It won't be extraordinarily expensive if there is still a 1/2 room available at the overflow hotel. It will need a decision quickly, though, since I understand the overflow hotel has a looming deadline on their rate too.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Max Spevack wrote:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/84 -- pending resolution from Ricky, who's going to get me the flights he prefers. This flight is pretty cheap, so no issues.
Booked.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/73 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one too, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next APAC FUDCon.
Closed.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/55 -- I think we're too close to the deadline for this one, and probably have to close it. I think we should make sure we provide funding for the next LATAM FUDCon
Closed.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
Not my call, since others have led the subsidy decision making process this time around and I don't want to subvert that process at all.
--Max
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Max Spevack mspevack@fedoraproject.org wrote:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
Not my call, since others have led the subsidy decision making process this time around and I don't want to subvert that process at all.
For these other two, I'm torn. We *can* spend (some of?) the money that we were going to spend on broadband internet access, but to be frank I think we've already gone above and beyond the call of duty with regards to subsidies. With other requests for Fedora help and sponsorship of various events, I'd feel better about spending the money elsewhere rather than continuing down the line of more subsidies for FUDCon.
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader
On 01/06/2011 07:31 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Max Spevackmspevack@fedoraproject.org wrote:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
Not my call, since others have led the subsidy decision making process this time around and I don't want to subvert that process at all.
For these other two, I'm torn. We *can* spend (some of?) the money that we were going to spend on broadband internet access, but to be frank I think we've already gone above and beyond the call of duty with regards to subsidies. With other requests for Fedora help and sponsorship of various events, I'd feel better about spending the money elsewhere rather than continuing down the line of more subsidies for FUDCon.
Per the budget spreadsheet - we still have about $3800 of commarch funding in Q4 that is available.
That doesn't include a holdback of $3k for internet - which, assuming we don't spend money on broadband internet, leaves us about $7k.
I'm going to assume for a moment, and Max can throw rocks at me if I'm incorrect when he gets to Tempe, that the CommArch budget largely looks like it usually does this time of year - rather unspent. I think that the idea of saving money for other things, for which there are other budgets that are still overflowing, is probably not the best use of money (because the money just won't get used.)
Even if we go and spend $3k on MiFi's and so forth (which I think would be a seriously overkill amount of money to spend) - that still leaves us a good chunk of change left. I'm happy to leave some leftover for budget overruns, or extra goodies (like more shirts) - but really, I think we could still comfortably spend at least $2k.
Not to mention that I've spent time procuring and working with outside sponsors, who have donated the event money partially to the ends of "please subsidize some of our stuff, so that we have more money to bring in contributors." I'd like to use that money to bring in people to FUDCon as promised. :)
-Robyn
-- Jared Smith Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ fudcon-planning mailing list fudcon-planning@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fudcon-planning
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 09:31:32AM -0500, Jared K. Smith wrote:
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:30 PM, Max Spevack mspevack@fedoraproject.org wrote:
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/89 -- Looks pretty cheap.
https://fedorahosted.org/fudcon-planning/ticket/91 -- Looks pretty cheap.
Not my call, since others have led the subsidy decision making process this time around and I don't want to subvert that process at all.
For these other two, I'm torn. We *can* spend (some of?) the money that we were going to spend on broadband internet access, but to be frank I think we've already gone above and beyond the call of duty with regards to subsidies. With other requests for Fedora help and sponsorship of various events, I'd feel better about spending the money elsewhere rather than continuing down the line of more subsidies for FUDCon.
Hi Jared,
As of yesterday's planning meeting, the decision was to allow until COB yesterday to hear back from one last contractor about any option and estimated cost for the broadband hookup. If we didn't hear back, the option for upping the hotel b'band would be off the table.
There may be other purposes for that funding that you or other planners had in mind. Now that the option of purchasing extra hotel broadband through a contractor or Marriott at least is no longer in that pool, does that change anything?
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