[gentoo-trustees] Registration fee collection for developer conference

[gentoo-trustees] Registration fee collection for developer conference

[Corey Shields]

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We're planning a gentoo developer conference[1] the day after LinuxWorld Expo 
in San Francisco this year  (making the date of said event August 12th).  It 
will be a full day of presentations and shoulder-rubbing.

One of our hosting providers, Global Netoptex, has stepped up and offered a 
site for the conference, wifi, AND lunch/drinks all for free.  Derek Wise, 
the CEO, has been very excited about helping out.  They are limited in 
seating to 30 seats, but not knowing the demand ahead of time we decided to 
go with this.  To make up for the limited seating, Indiana University is 
stepping up to webcast the event, and will also provide video archives of the 
conference sessions.  This can effectively make it a worldwide Gentoo 
conference.  They can handle about 200+ streams at once.

Where I need to involve the Foundation is this:  We will charge a small 
registration fee (probably $10, but the exact figure isn't set yet) to avoid 
everyone rushing the registration and filling seats without a real 
commitment.  Also, Netoptex has offered to split the cost of conference 
shirts, so the registration will cover a t-shirt.

Would it be okay to have the money paypal'd to the Foundation and let the 
Foundation become the collection point?  In the registration page we could 
point to a paypal object that is named for this conference, so the money is 
easily distinguished from within paypal.   I would just rather see this 
handled through the Foundation than through an individual person.  Any 
leftover money can stay with the Foundation, so this is not a budget request 
per se.  What would probably happen is that when it comes time for the 
conference I could paypal the money to me and disburse it accordingly.

Thoughts?

-C

[1] - http://devwiki.gentoo.org/tiki-index.php?page=GentooDevConf

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Corey Shields
Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team and Devrel Team
Gentoo Foundation Board of Trustees
http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields

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Re: [gentoo-trustees] Registration fee collection for developer conference

[Grant Goodyear]

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Corey Shields wrote: [Mon Jun 13 2005, 05:43:02PM CDT]
> 
> Would it be okay to have the money paypal'd to the Foundation and let the 
> Foundation become the collection point?  In the registration page we could 
> point to a paypal object that is named for this conference, so the money is 
> easily distinguished from within paypal.   I would just rather see this 
> handled through the Foundation than through an individual person.  Any 
> leftover money can stay with the Foundation, so this is not a budget request 
> per se.  What would probably happen is that when it comes time for the 
> conference I could paypal the money to me and disburse it accordingly.

That's fine with me.  Do we have an official treasurer to handle the
books?  All those opposed to cshields..., or shall we just dump the job
on him and declare him treasurer by fiat?

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear	
Gentoo Developer
g2boojum@gentoo.org
http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum
GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0  9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76

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[gentoo-trustees] Positions (was Registration fee collection for developer conference)

[Corey Shields]

On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 19:10 -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
> That's fine with me.  Do we have an official treasurer to handle the
> books?  All those opposed to cshields..., or shall we just dump the job
> on him and declare him treasurer by fiat?

Likewise with grant as president..  I think we can give another day or
so for people to say "nay" and we consider it done.

Anyone want to step up as Vice President (for when Grant is not
available to perform) and Secretary?

-C

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