[Grants] Grant request: Linux Australia Contribution to the Promote Drupal Fund

[Donna Benjamin]

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> On 4 May 2018, at 10:01, Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe at just42.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Donna

Hey Jonathan!

> Thanks for your well-written proposal.  I have a couple of questions.

Thank you for reading and these thoughtful questions. 

> In the (IMHO) unlikely event that the fundraising drive falls short of the
> $100k goal, what approach will be taken with the money that was raised?

I’ll refer this question to Megan and follow up when I have a response. 
(She’s CC’d but not on this list)

>> Linux Australia has been the auspicing financial sponsor of a number of
>> Drupal events in Australia and New Zealand over many years.  Most of those
>> events have been successful, and returned a healthy surplus, above the
>> auspicing costs.
> 
> Do you (or council) have a rough (first-order) estimate as to the magnitude
> of the accumulated surplus associated with Drupal-related events?

I don’t have access to recent event budgets so council will need to respond to this. The events I was personally involved in ran to surplus, I can’t speak as confidently for the others. 

- Donna.