[Board] Financial limit on advances and guarantees to FOSS4Gs

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Maxi,
For FOSS4G 2009, Sydney, OSGeo took 100% of the risk, and received 100% 
of the profit.
For FOSS4G 2012, Beijing, OSGeo took 0% of the risk, and didn't loose 
anything when the conference was cancelled.

On 25/08/2015 7:40 am, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
>
> But what about the two positions i pointed out? Nobody has any thought?
>
> How was in 2009 the profit splitted?
> Would it be possible to have the table i proposed filled?
>
> I think that we have now enough events done to collect some statistics 
> that will tell us how things goes...
>
> Maxi
>
> Il 24/Ago/2015 22:55, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>
>     Hi Jeff, board, and conference committee,
>
>     To provide context, in 2009, at the end of the early bird
>     registration we had significantly fewer registrations than
>     projected, are we were looking to potentially suffer a $60K to
>     $70K loss.
>     With a lot of hard work, and nervous concern, we managed to bring
>     the conference back to a modest profit. However, I'd suggest that
>     a loss within the $50K to $150K range should be considered
>     possible, even with good management. A global security scare,
>     health scare, or financial crisis could easily trigger such a loss.
>
>     Warm regards,
>     Cameron
>
>     On 25/08/2015 12:38 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>
>         Hi Board,
>
>         Below is a question from Steven.  Obviously I cannot
>         answer/approve this myself, we need input from the OSGeo Board
>         and Treasurer.  I just logged into the online OSGeo bank
>         account, and I see 393,000 USD available (the Treasurer would
>         have to update us if some of that is promised elsewhere, or if
>         we are expecting more).  Steve and Till: how much funding
>         should we have available to cover FOSS4G 2016?
>
>         -jeff
>
>
>
>         ***
>         On 2015-08-24 8:44 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
>         > Jeff, wearing my prudent financial hat - do OSGeo have
>         enough free funds
>         > to issue advances and guarantees to 2016 until the results
>         are in from
>         > 2015?
>         > ______
>         > Steven
>
>
>
>
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