[Linux-aus] Treasurers Report 2012

[Joshua Hesketh]

Awesome breakdown aj. Thanks for that :-)

I have some thoughts on swag but they are for another time ;-). It
certainly does take up a huge amount though.

Cheers,
Josh

On 26/01/13 00:32, Anthony Towns wrote:
> On 25 January 2013 20:57, Joshua Hesketh <josh at nitrotech.org> wrote:
>> Yes this would have been remaining expenses not in the 2011 budget. You can
>> look at both of the budgets for comparison, but I also have a spreadsheet
>> attached that does a nice comparison of all the areas.
> Hmm, that's got some interesting info.
>
> Total income over three years and three weeks has been just under $2M,
> which is split:
>
>   63% - conference regos
>   21% - Australian sponsorship
>   14% - International sponsorship
>    2% - Interest
>    0% - Merch sales (0.09% rounded down)
>
> That seems like a pretty respectable split to me. I'm impressed the
> "local" sponsorship is so high, even if that's including a lot of
> local subsiduaries of multinationals.
>
> Expenses meanwhile:
>
> Core activities: (41.8%)
>
>   16.04%	Venue - Hire
>    5.65%	AV and Network Equipment
>    5.44%	Travel - International
>    3.59%	Speakers Travel - International
>    1.87%	Travel - National
>    1.87%	Tansport buses, taxis etc
>    1.67%	Ghosts
>    1.66%	Third Party Training
>    1.57%	Server
>    1.34%	Speakers Accomodation
>    1.09%	Grants - Other
>
> Luxuries: (34.55%)
>
>   13.05%	Merchandise and Schwag
>    7.36%	Venue - Catering
>    6.20%	Conference Dinner
>    4.59%	Food & Drink
>    1.95%	Speakers Dinner
>    1.40%	Donation
>
> Accounts directly for income: (11.25%)
>
>    8.27%	Conference Accommodation
>    2.98%	Networking Event
>
> Necessary overhead: (2.45%)
>
>    1.38%	Storage Rental
>    1.07%	Office Expenses
>
> The remaining 10% are of items that individually account for less than
> 1% each. Insurance, zookeepr hackfest, merchant fees, local speakers
> travel...
>
> So, bugger me, we spend a lot on merch and swag. Almost as much as on
> venues? Is that a bit crazy, especially when we basically don't sell
> any independently? Do we really think schwag adds as much value to LCA
> as having a venue, or three times the value of recordings, or about
> twice the value of covering speakers costs? Or between two and five
> times the grants budget? Wow.
>
> Nice that (a) pretty much all the big ticket items are "on point" and
> there's no "huh? you shouldn't be paying $50,000 for fax rental..."
> sort of stuff in there (touch wood), and that (b) the "luxury" stuff
> (that you could plausibly argue doesn't add anything to what LA's
> actually about) is thoroughly paid for by attendee's directly (as
> opposed to hitting up sponsors for lotsa money and spending it all on
> gala dinners and champagne).
>
> Cheers,
> aj
>


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