Debian event in Hamburg in 2025

Dear people,

once again I would like to organize a Debian event in Hamburg,
and therefore I have preliminary reserved the venue of previous years
from Wednesday, April 30th until Monday, May 5th 2025.

For those who haven't been there, the venue is probably best described in
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg#Location

The dates are a bit sub optimal, but I think that was the best
available block, with hopefully the weather already being okish
and still not too close to DebConf25 in Brest in July.

As for the format, I think we should have a MiniDebConf on
Saturday and Sunday & miniDebCamp for the rest. A small DayTrip
maybe too, but probably not with the rest of the world on May 1st?
& definitly cheese and wine! ... and/or what do y'all think?

And here's a caveat: I don't want to deal with doing the budget
& finances anymore, I've done it for several years, it's neither complex
nor complicated, but it's just nothing I find fun. But maybe it
*is* fun for someone else? :)

So, is someone willing to do that? Doing it as group might also be more
fun!

The task needed *roughly* described are:
- calculate a budget and get it approved by the DPL (see below)
- get in contact with a TO, which here is Debian France and who will
  do the actual payments of invoices to us and who will also
  generate the invoices for sponsors to pay
- talk to sponsors, find sponsors, etc., send invoices to sponsors.
- receive invoices from venue and food supplier(s) etc
- update the budget
- have fun!

Useful URLs are:
- https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL#Money
- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg/Budget
- https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2024/MiniDebCampHamburg/Budget

If you are interested, please reply to this email or come around on
#debconf-hamburg or #debconf-germany!

The budget in 2024 was 11.5k EUR with no income from sponsors, while in 2023
it was more like 15k EUR with 7k EUR income from sponsors, but the event was
also bigger. For 2025 I expect *roughly* the same costs as 2023, maybe some
prices were raised, so max 17k EUR ? ;) Minus whatever sponsors we get!

So, what do y'all think???

-- 
cheers,
	Holger
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