[Debconf-team] For Blog: Short insiders summary of DebConf11 Organization

2011-03-15 Thread Vedran Omeragic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, last night I wrote a small article on my blog about progress of organization of dc11. It was suggested to me, that this article should also be published on blog.dc.o, so if you agree with that, the article can be found at http://bit.ly/gmYYQ9 .

Re: [Debconf-team] For Blog: Short insiders summary of DebConf11 Organization

2011-03-15 Thread Vedran Omeragic
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/2011 12:18 PM, Vedran Omeragic wrote: Hi, last night I wrote a small article on my blog about progress of organization of dc11. It was suggested to me, that this article should also be published on blog.dc.o, so if you agree with that,

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-15 Thread Adnan Hodzic
Thank you both Moray and Richard for trying to registrations more simple and clear. The key thing here is there is no more professional category, we have these people book a room at the hotel directly, instead of us being a broker. This person will book room directly won't go over us and

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-15 Thread Adnan Hodzic
We (DIVA) talked to the accountant again, and I've mentioned contracts above. After accountant looked over this again, she says that we would need to make contract with every person we would grant that sponsorship t, + every single person would be 10% tax. So DIVA would rather have some other NGO

Re: [Debconf-team] Registration plan / pentabarf changes

2011-03-15 Thread Moray Allan
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Adnan Hodzic ad...@foolcontrol.org wrote: This person will book room directly won't go over us and everything is absolutely clear, but how will we know if he's even registered, if he's even coming? If they want to attend DebConf, they would still need to

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Darst
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 05:49:29PM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: We (DIVA) talked to the accountant again, and I've mentioned contracts above. After accountant looked over this again, she says that we would need to make contract with every person we would grant that sponsorship t, + every single

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-15 Thread Adnan Hodzic
This contract is what is needed to disburse money to a person? Yep, and tax fee will be 10% for each. We (DC11 team) signed these to get sponsorships from Government to get to DC10 in NYC. Is the government handling the accommodation and food for sponsored attendees, separate from the NGO?  

Re: [Debconf-team] [rt.debconf.org #1965] The relationship between DIVA and SPI in terms of sponsorship money

2011-03-15 Thread Richard Darst
Updates from IRC: On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 11:48:33PM +0100, Adnan Hodzic wrote: This contract is what is needed to disburse money to a person? Yep, and tax fee will be 10% for each. We (DC11 team) signed these to get sponsorships from Government to get to DC10 in NYC. Tax would not apply