[Linux-aus] Nominations and their spiels for the LA election

[Anthony Towns]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:08:35AM -0800, Michael Still wrote:
> The goodosity of the idea would depend on whether $34k is a significant 
> portion of LA's operating budget or not. I'm a little out of touch with 
> LA's finances, can you clarify that aspect please?

Not in detail until the AGM, unfortunately. For comparison,
linux.conf.au's total budget (including attendee accommodation booked
through the lca website etc) is currently about $300k - $400k aiui,
but it's self-funding through registrations and sponsorship, and returns
a surplus. The last budget we drew up estimated that our other ongoing
expenditures would be about:

	Grants:           $24,000

	Ctte meetings:     $4,000
	Insurance etc:     $4,000
	Media training:    $5,000
	SFD, mirror, etc:  $6,000
	LW, CeBIT, etc:	   $2,000

which totals about $45,000 all up. We've also contributed $10,000
to the establishment of the John Lions chair at UNSW this year, and
there are other expenses too. We're approximately breaking-even on a
year-to-year basis, thanks to lca, interest, and miscellaneous other
funds. It's likely we could increase our incoming funds by asking for
more sponsorship outside of lca, by having it be possible to pay for
membership rather than only be free, or by selling t-shirts etc with some
of the proceeds going to LA. LA's got a reasonable amount of money in
the bank primarily from previous conferences though, so without having
any real use for the money we've got, there's not much incentive to get
serious about getting more money in.

> What about other options, like video conferencing international people 
> in? Or having the international people talk at more than one LUG while 
> they are out here?

Sharing speakers (and their costs) with other groups like SAGE-AU and
AUUG (or local universities or even schools or whatever) would also be
possible too, presumably.

Cheers,
aj

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