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. cate, On behalf of the DebConf Chairs _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team