[EuroPython] Budget, Sponsoring and

[Martijn Faassen]

Denis wrote:
> Le Sat, Feb 16, 2002 at 08:41:20AM +0100, Andrew Smart pianota:
> > I can offer sponsoring support for germany: my assistant can call companies,
> > which officially use python and/or zope, and ask them very politly (we shut
> > down your zope server remotly if not ;-) for a contribution.
> 
> That shouldn't hurt. :-)
> 
> > We have to find out this companies before, of course. And we have to make
> > clear that the python conference is a nonprofit organisation,
> 
> Of course, it's a non-profit organization.
> 
> > and the money is for the costs and for the students.
> 
> Should there be money left ?
> If so, it could be funds for the next conference, too.

This again indicates the need we need some EuroPython organization, (or
a EuroPython conference organization in particular doing only the
conference(s)), to manage this money and to bear the risk.

We don't intend to make money with the conference, but we don't have
to go spend all the money either in case it should make a profit. I think
having an organization for this would be the best thing, but I don't know
enough about the legal matters to accurately comment. We do seem to have
others who can, though, so I'll leave that up to them.

Regards,

Martijn