[OSGeo-Conf] Firenze Full Proposal

Steven Feldman shfeldman at gmail.com
Fri May 7 02:56:36 PDT 2021


Thanks Luca

Good clear answers, I appreciate your honesty about the unknowns

Best
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> On 6 May 2021, at 07:23, Luca Delucchi <lucadeluge at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 21:02, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Luca
>> 
> 
> Hi Steven,
> sorry for the late reply
> 
>> Thanks for your detailed and clear proposal
>> 
>> I have 3 questions for you:
>> 
>> 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?
> 
> In case of a cancellation of a physical event forced by government
> restrictions, there are some services that might be reimbursed by the
> suppliers, still, it depends on when the restriction will be applied.
> If the cancellation of the event should not depend on government
> restrictions instead, all the advances already paid to the suppliers
> would be lost.
> 
> Here below we can try to provide a schedule of costs month by month
> but it’s just an economic simulation:
> 
> ·         July 2021: 11000 €
> ·         October 2021: 17000€
> ·         Dicembre 2021: 12000€
> ·         April 2022: 26000€
> ·         May 2022: 15000€
> ·         June 2022: 15000€
> ·         July 2022: 207.000€
> ·         August 2022: remaining costs
> 
>> 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?
> 
> No, we can't be sure though:
> 
> * that's the amount of money we are exhibiting OSGeo for and that
> would cover our expenses until April, when we will certainly have
> already decided whether the event will be physical, hybrid or online
> * the problem is if we decide to do it physically and the month before
> the conference an unforeseen event like COVID happens, so we are
> considering the possibility of taking out an ad hoc insurance.
> 
>> What organisation will OSGeo be contacting with?
>> 
> 
> GFOSS.it is the Italian Local Chapter and main organizer for FOSS4G
> 2022 and the direct contact with OSGeo. GFOSS.it will sign a contract
> with AIM (PCO) for the management of the event.
> 
>> 
>> Matt the FOSS be with you
>> 
>> Steven
>> 
> 
> -- 
> regards
> Luca
> 
> www.lucadelu.org

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