[H-GEN] Big ticket spending [was: The lca movie.]

[gavin duley]

On 22 Jun 2009, at 04:11, Russell Stuart wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 03:38 +0100, gavin duley wrote:
>> To me, the purchase of a video camera does seem like it would be a
>> good idea. It wouldn't be wasted after LCA, it could be used to film
>> talks given at regular HUMBUG meetings which could then be made
>> available on the internet. This assumes HUMBUG starts having at least
>> semi-regular talks, though.
>
> Matt has collected some quotes for purchasing the A/V equipment for  
> LCA
> 2011 outright verses renting it.  Matt says the prices are in the same
> ball park.  If they are with 50% or so I'd say purchasing them is a  
> very
> good idea.  However it ain't our money we are playing with there, so  
> we
> would have to run it past Linux Australian.  That said, I suspect if  
> we
> won Linux Australia would accept whatever we put up in our bid.
>
> I don't think Greg is talking about that though.  Matt (who should put
> his 2c in here anyway), is proposing Humbug purchase some A/V  
> equipment.
> This would cost a substantial fraction of Humbug's current bank  
> account
> balance.


My confusion, then. I assumed that the video equipment purchased for  
HUMBUG would be the same as the video equipment purchased for LCA.

Given that HUMBUG has to purchase video equipment for LCA, and that  
funding for this is pretty much a given, would it be possible for  
HUMBUG to keep hold of it after LCA?

gavin,

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what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
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Gavin Duley
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