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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 3 May 2021, at 19:03, Mark Iliffe <<a href="mailto:markiliffe@gmail.com" class="">markiliffe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Luca,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your answers. I have no further questions - but I wish to urge that special attention is paid to ensure that all those that wish to participate in FOSS4G are given the opportunity to do so. Appreciate that there is a perceptible driver to be cost-efficient - however, for many delegates, a few euros here or there doesn't make much of a difference, but for those with not a lot, it is those euros that can transform everything. I would strongly urge that FOSS4G ticket prices are not a race to the bottom, instead are considered as a mechanism that can bring value to the entire OSGeo ecosystem. Your approach of leaning into the OSGeo to underwrite your FOSS4G is IMHO the correct one given our circumstances - but unless there is a necessity to raise money for OSGeo (which I don't think there is... at least not more than 'usual'), my counsel would be to reduce the potential profit back into OSGeo's coffers to invest within the community. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">May the FOSS be with you!! Even if the members of this committee aren't in your FLOC meetings, know that we're behind you every step of the way :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Mark </div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 15:02, Steven Feldman <<a href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" class="">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Luca<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for your detailed and clear proposal</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I have 3 questions for you:</div><div class=""><ol class=""><li class="">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 class="">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 class="">What organisation will OSGeo be contacting with?</li></ol><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Matt the FOSS be with you</div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div class="">Steven</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">+44 (0) 7958 924101</span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span class="">Sent from my iPhone</span></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 1 May 2021, at 17:33, Luca Delucchi <<a href="mailto:lucadeluge@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">lucadeluge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><span class="">On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 00:51, Paul Ramsey <<a href="mailto:pramsey@cleverelephant.ca" target="_blank" class="">pramsey@cleverelephant.ca</a>> wrote:</span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">Luca, thanks so much for this proposal. I have only a couple questions / clarifications:</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><span class="">Dear Paul,</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">our answer are inline</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">- The Gala is pencilled in as a 0EUR price (ie, it is included in the registration).</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""> - Will you include a price for delegates bringing a guest?</span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Yes, Gala dinner is included in the registration fees. Regarding</span><br class=""><span class="">guests, we estimate the price for Gala dinner ticket around 75 € for</span><br class=""><span class="">each person.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""> - Those who choose not to attend will end up cross-subsidizing those who do, are you OK with that?</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">If you are still talking about the gala dinner, the costs of the</span><br class=""><span class="">people who will not attend will still have to be covered. We might</span><br class=""><span class="">even think about putting the gala dinner as an external cost to the</span><br class=""><span class="">registration. In the last few years we have seen that the gala dinner</span><br class=""><span class="">has always been included in the registration and we have followed this</span><br class=""><span class="">route.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">- 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 class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">There has been a misunderstanding the line "OSGeo % Seed Funding" is</span><br class=""><span class="">actually "OSGeo % for Seed Funding" and represents the percentage of</span><br class=""><span class="">surplus OSGeo should obtain. The seed funding required is 60000 € in</span><br class=""><span class="">three tranches as written in the proposal, beyond an additional</span><br class=""><span class="">guarantee against losses of 25.000 Euro making a total exposure of up</span><br class=""><span class="">to 85.000 Euro for OSGeo. In the budget the seed funding has not been</span><br class=""><span class="">considered.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">- 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 class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">Yes, all the prices are coming from quotations and validated by</span><br class=""><span class="">venue’s people and PCO.</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">Thanks!</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class="">P</span><br class=""></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""></blockquote><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class="">-- </span><br class=""><span class="">regards</span><br class=""><span class="">Luca</span><br class=""><span class=""></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="http://www.lucadelu.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.lucadelu.org</a></span><br class=""><span class="">_______________________________________________</span><br class=""><span class="">Conference_dev mailing list</span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a></span><br class=""><span class=""><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev</a></span><br class=""></div></blockquote></div></div>_______________________________________________<br class="">
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