<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Luca<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your detailed and clear proposal</div><div><br></div><div>I have 3 questions for you:</div><div><ol><li>Can you provide a schedule of how the costs of a cancellation of a physical event (forced by government covid restrictions) increase month by month as you get closer to the event?</li><li>You have asked for seed funding of €60,000 plus a further guarantee of €25,000. Are you certain that €85,000 is the maximum possible loss?</li><li>What organisation will OSGeo be contacting with?</li></ol><br><div dir="ltr">Matt the FOSS be with you</div><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Steven</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">+44 (0) 7958 924101</span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On 1 May 2021, at 17:33, Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><span>On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 00:51, Paul Ramsey <pramsey@cleverelephant.ca> wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Luca, thanks so much for this proposal. I have only a couple questions / clarifications:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span>Dear Paul,</span><br><span></span><br><span>our answer are inline</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>- The Gala is pencilled in as a 0EUR price (ie, it is included in the registration).</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span> - Will you include a price for delegates bringing a guest?</span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Yes, Gala dinner is included in the registration fees. Regarding</span><br><span>guests, we estimate the price for Gala dinner ticket around 75 € for</span><br><span>each person.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span> - Those who choose not to attend will end up cross-subsidizing those who do, are you OK with that?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>If you are still talking about the gala dinner, the costs of the</span><br><span>people who will not attend will still have to be covered. We might</span><br><span>even think about putting the gala dinner as an external cost to the</span><br><span>registration. In the last few years we have seen that the gala dinner</span><br><span>has always been included in the registration and we have followed this</span><br><span>route.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>- The "OSGeo % Seed Funding" number at the bottom of the budget is quite sensitive to the number of projected attendees, which I find odd. I'd expect it to be pretty fixed, and largely keyed to expense items that are quite fixed and require large deposits up front (convention space, A/V suppliers). What does that number come from?</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>There has been a misunderstanding the line "OSGeo % Seed Funding" is</span><br><span>actually "OSGeo % for Seed Funding" and represents the percentage of</span><br><span>surplus OSGeo should obtain. The seed funding required is 60000 € in</span><br><span>three tranches as written in the proposal, beyond an additional</span><br><span>guarantee against losses of 25.000 Euro making a total exposure of up</span><br><span>to 85.000 Euro for OSGeo. In the budget the seed funding has not been</span><br><span>considered.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>- The food prices are ... very reasonable? Are those numbers (25EUR lunch, etc) validated with the organizers, do they really represent the cost of catering in the venue? Venues sometimes have quite expensive and exclusive catering arrangements.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>Yes, all the prices are coming from quotations and validated by</span><br><span>venue’s people and PCO.</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks!</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>P</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>regards</span><br><span>Luca</span><br><span></span><br><span>www.lucadelu.org</span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Conference_dev mailing list</span><br><span>Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</span><br><span>https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>