[Board] FOSS4G 2014 Budget

[Andrew Ross]

Darrell,

That makes good sense re: the sponsor pipeline.

Also, my comment was based on a wonky view of the spreadsheet on my 
phone. It looked very sparse. Now that I'm on my laptop & see a lot more 
detail so please disregard as its not valid. Thanks for sharing the details!

That was my point about billings/charging. Without a view of the 
specific services being offered in the contract, the amount is of 
limited value.

Andrew

On 17/10/13 17:38, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
> The part I was asked to take off was the list of expected/hoped for sponsors and dollar amounts (even though the dollar amounts associated were more place holder than anything else).
>
> However, I would point out that if you're a contractor, you might well consider your billing amounts to be private, if not exactly trade secrets. People don't like their competition to find out what they're charging.
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> Darrell
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>
> On Oct 17, 2013, at 14:23, Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at eclipse.org> wrote:
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>> Hi Darrell, Portland LOC, OSGeo board
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>> 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
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>> On 17/10/13 16:34, Darrell Fuhriman wrote:
>>> Per the virtual board meeting today, I've attached a "sanitized" version of the budget.
>>>
>>> The latest version of this document will always be available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5c7t8xvhuveu2x/PDX%20FOSS4g%202014%20Budget.xls
>>>
>>> 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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