Dear Andreas, Stéphane Ducasse wrote:
sorry andreas but apparently you do not know what is to take the risk to organize a conference and get broken Now it happens with ESUG certain years and
I would agree with you if ESUG was spending 100% of the money it has.
I agree with Stephane. Over a period of many years, I believe ESUG does spend "all the money it has", in that any money ESUG gets is sooner or later spent on Smalltalk. In a single year, ESUG must budget to ensure the conference succeeds. Last year, I got a special insight ( :-) ) into how that means estimating and hoping. Especially at this time of year, there is both hope and some stress for those who run ESUG. For the good of Smalltalk, failure is not an option! That means the year's budget plan must ensure it is not - and at the same time, deliver great value to all who come to ESUG. So I believe in a given year, ESUG should not plan to spend 100% of all the money it hopes to raise that year. Yours faithfully Niall Ross ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________