[Board] FOSS4G 2014 Budget

[Andrew Ross]

Hi Darrell, Portland LOC, OSGeo board

I was wondering, why is the FOSS4G budget kept secret?

No two offerings from organizers and suppliers are alike, therefore the 
number doesn't give away trade secrets, so I would like to understand 
more the rationale for keeping it secret.

Andrew

On 17/10/13 16:34, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> Per the virtual board meeting today, I've attached a "sanitized" version of the budget.
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> The latest version of this document will always be available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5c7t8xvhuveu2x/PDX%20FOSS4g%202014%20Budget.xls
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> During the discussion, Frank Warmerdam mentioned that the baseline attendance estimate (850) was not very conservative.
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> However, if you play with the variables you'll see that you can lower attendance quite a bit and still come out in the black. Quite simply, it's because catering is *by far* the largest expense, and the catering bill is directly proportional to the number of attendees.
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> Obviously really low attendance would have an effect on things like sponsorship levels, but there's no obvious way to model what that would be, and I think it's safe to assume that a FOSS4G can consistently draw 800+ attendees.
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> Darrell
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