Re: No GTK+ Hackfest this year

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

2009/3/25 Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>:
> On 03/25/2009 06:56 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
>>
>> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Some may have heard that I've been planning the Bolzano GTK+ Hackfest.
>>> Well, given the economy, we are canceling that plan for now.
>>
>> The global economy or the GNOME Foundations economy?
>
> Well, the two are not really separate.  Last year we raised over 80% of the
> GTK+ hackfest expenses from the advisory board members, and many companies
> paid for airfare of their employees going to the hackfest.  This year we
> failed to do the former, and I expect the latter also being an issue for
> many of the companies.

Behdad, do we have an estimate of how much money the former one costed
(including accomodation, and travel expenses)?

It would be interesting to have that information at hand to figure out
how much money should be raised so that the Foundation could afford
it.

> And the foundation budget is also tight this year.  We don't want to dip
> into our cash reserves too much.  Stormy and J5 are working on a financial
> report and budget for the year which will better explain the foundation
> numbers.
>
> behdad
>
>> - Andreas
>
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Un saludo,
Alberto Ruiz