 Right, so this is the official part of the EPS to be honest. It's a bit boring, but I mean nothing much we can do We have this agenda in the in the bylaws and And so we need to do it this way Do we have the EPS members all sitting here? If you could hear the voting EPS members, please sit in the first few rows so that it's easier for us to basically do the voting and then Of course everyone else is welcome to join we don't have anything to hide And if you find this interesting, then you can become a you can sign up to become an EPS member afterwards, of course Okay, I'm gonna try something which is May not work unfortunately, we have a number of People who are not here at the conference I'm gonna try to use Skype to to basically join them here Okay He's not answering Let's go ahead Okay, so first of all welcome to all the new EPS members that we have we sign up a couple of more EPS EPS members in recent weeks We now have 182 members This is much better without the transition So meeting business what we need for the general assembly is we need to basically decide on a chair person for the meeting We need a secretary and we need to check us of the minutes So the first thing that we need is a chair person chairing it. I would suggest that I don't know maybe Alexander can do this because you have the microphone and then Then we need a secretary someone who can take Who can take the minutes Taking the minutes basically means you have to take down what we discussed and you then you have to record the votes the voting results that we've That we have and we need then two checkers of the minutes So basically okay Stefan will do the minutes and then we need two checkers basically say that okay, these minutes are correct Daria and who else Christian so The first task for Stefan would be to now note the names of the two checkers the secretary and himself Do you need a whoops, do you need a piece of paper and Normally the secretary the chairperson of the meeting also does the voting so Alexander the first thing that you have to do is you have to establish We have to have an emotion establishing the timeliness of the call of the general assembly and then we need to vote on that So just to as maybe as reminder or introduction to how this works timeliness of the call the Bylaws say that we have to call for the general assembly 14 days before the actual General assembly and up to five days before the general assembly we can make changes to the agenda and the like suggestions from the board or Board candidates Yes I Wait abstentions It's the usual kind of process anyone against abstain anyone who's saying everything was in time Stefan what you also need is we need a we need a list of all the all the EPS members who have attended the The general assembly so please pass around a piece of paper Okay, so I think we managed that part. So let's go to the next one As far as I say everybody said yes Abstain no just like for double checking no 16. Yes Okay, so the next thing is the annual report by the board. So this is what I'm going to do I'm going to show you the preliminary results from 2016 the the actual 27 timeline not the one that I just showed in the previous talk And then how we're going to move on So these are the preliminary results from 2016 preliminary because we don't have the complete we've not gone through the complete balance sheet with the local organization the AC pie SS in From Bilbao yet But this is what they reported to us. So the conference made a profit of 71481 point five five euros This currently includes 17,920 euros pending sponsor payments so what the They are still having issues getting all the sponsors to actually pay We've done a round of emails So we managed to get a few of them to pay but this amount is still Basically blocked if we do get all the sponsor payments, of course the the EPS share will be 50% and then We will get a thirty five thousand seven hundred forty And seventy seven cents From the AC pie SS and that will go towards the EPS budget that we have if you compare that to the previous years It's a little lower than 2016 and the reason being that for 2017 we basically spend a bit more money on on nice things like for example the the booths That we had in in Bilbao This was actually a good investment because we had lots of sponsors who really like those booths And they sign up again for this year. So it made a lot of sense to do this investment. Yes Sorry, ah, sorry. Yes. Yes. Yes You're right 2015 Let me just fix that I can fix it later Compared to 2014 it's a much better result and as you can see we're actually getting some money into basically Work on the mission the new mission that we have that we want to support other community other Organizations in Europe right now. We're still the Okay, what we have in the bank right now is or we had in the bank because we gave a loan to the local organization for this year We had in the bank about the 46,000 And 40,000 we basically gave a loan to the Python Italia organization so that they can basically finance the the initial contract Payments that we had to do for for this venue So let's have a look at the actual timeline of 2017 So in last year in July, we had the election of the new board and August to October. We did the selection process This is the selection process took longer than Expected because we had a few issues with the venues that we originally had chosen or looked at let's put it that way So originally the idea was to do it in Como or do it in Milano This didn't work out because the costs were literally twice as much as what we pay here And so that wouldn't have been sustainable so we couldn't do it. So we had to go and then find new locations and Christian then identified some more it was think Genoa Richione and Rimini and another one No, I think those three and then eventually we then decided to go with Rimini We had another candidate which was Brno in the Czech Republic But the the problem there was That the venue did not really I mean it the venue is it was a nice venue and it had enough rooms But there was no room that was available for doing large plenary sessions So they had a room which was very very long And so the people in the back wouldn't have been able to see the screen in the front and so that was a pity so This is always important when you go to when you select venues that you always have to make sure that everything Is actually suited for a conference of this size Anyway, so we decided on Rimini and then we started the whole process of basically getting everything going with the contract and so on We launched the preview website Early on but we did not put any dates on it and the reason was that we had of course not signed the contract yet we started the negotiations with the venue in November and it literally took until February to basically come to an agreement and then The final agreement was signed in April so early in April we Signed the contract with the venue and that was basically the start for us to actually do a sponsor agreements because of course if you Don't have a venue agreement and you want to enter agreements with other people relying on that agreement you can't so this caused a serious delay in everything and we had to basically postpone a lot of things because of that By December the refactoring was done. So Patrick basically had to wish Patrick there he is He finished the the port to Django 1.8 and we now have the we now have a current Django CMS version running on on the website as well, which is very good Think you should deserve a big hand for that Right, so we now have a more done Website again we had to fix a few issues because There were still some things left from the old code But over the various last a few months we sorted out a few things So in January we started the act of work in the work groups, which was way too too late We should have started much earlier In March we started the website then in April the ticket sales We did the CFP talk voting in May and a schedule was also late in May and Then now you can see us here during the conference. So It was a really a really hot ride that we had there It was really a lot of work. We did not have enough volunteers to do everything Which is why several people had to put in a lot of work especially Christian who basically was our interface to the to the venue Because unfortunately the only person at the venue actually speaking English was the secretary of the manager that we had for the venue Which of course did not really help and also for sourcing all the local The local shops like for example getting the the water dispensers that was done by Christian I know it's a huge list like He pretty much managed all the things that we had to do here to to get the the conference off the ground and And did a huge number of things. So really I think he deserves the hand as well Right and now we're sitting here doing the general assembly so This is the ticket sales development I don't know if I can There a mouse somewhere. Yeah, there you go so in this chart these are the various conference years and if you See here, this is this is the this is 2017 this green Green chart and this shows the ticket sales for the conference and down here. These are the social event tickets And it's not hard to see but here at the very end This was these are the dates from July 7th So just before the conference. So it's we now have a spark here going up like this. I Don't know why Perhaps people found really so nice that they all definitely wanted to come to along to the social event Or maybe they just didn't know that there was a social event It if you look at the past years it always seems to happen like that But this year was particularly strong. We had a very strong spike there but if you look here these lines by the way out are like different Special dates like for example opening of the CS CFP opening of the talk voting The early bird sales were here and Like I said, it was in the think I didn't say I did not The early bird sales for 2017 was literally just one day So we got sold out in one day. So this is this spark here And then we had with the regular sales We had a very slow kind of start and that made us a bit nervous and then after we had the schedule Published which was around here somewhere Then was the session list I think and the schedule came later Then it started picking up And as you can see it ends here, but now right now we are Basically here again. So kind of the same level again as we had in the previous years What we found when working on the website, by the way is that This chart It has all the ticket sales. So the numbers are not really 100% correct These in the ticket sales include day tickets of which we usually don't sell a lot But this year for some reason we sold quite a few and it also includes Cancelled tickets. So we have this refund policy so that people can up to I think one month before the conference They can basically get it full the refund of everything and quite a few people do this So for example, they buy an early bird ticket and then just wait whether they can actually come and then just Ask for refund just one month before the conference and this is not included in here It is included the number up here the one thousand eleven that's with the refunded tickets removed the chart does not show this So I'm basically if you if you compare the various years, we always have more or less the same outcome Because I don't think the in previous years. We had fuel refunds Okay, so What did we do for the organization? Of course, we invited more volunteers to work with with us on the organization We removed many inactive members. I mean Members that were still marked as being members of the work groups, but we're actually not doing anything We basically turned them into inactive We've had to fix a few smaller issues with the website We found fortunately found a few more very active volunteers So Valeria where is she? She's Not here anymore. She just left. So she was very active and doing a lot of things Sylvia I don't think she's here. Don't seriously help me with the sponsors Mario, where's Mario? There you are. He was just He's our water bottle man so because of him you have water in your bottles essentially and He oh yeah, but this was sorry Yeah, this was of course This was just at the conference and of course he helped before the conference every time you went to the you had a ticket Open on the help desk and he was one of the most active ones Answering those tickets and dealing with that and I think he did a really excellent job And I think he's a hand as well Then we have Manuel Chipper He could not attend the conference unfortunately, but hopefully next year he can make it He helped a lot with the program work group And then of course, oh Yeah in communication right here is several broke blog posts that we posted were written by him And then we have Piper It's like a virtual volunteer. So this is something that Alex Savio wrote. It's a bot And the bot was actually very helpful because it kept just going to the help desk for example Then just finding out where the new tickets open and then posted them to the telegram groups Which was a very good integration because it's because you don't then actively have to go to the help desk every time to find out Whether something new is there And that's that was very good for the sponsors the Piper does the sponsor agreements So every time we get a new sponsor, then we just say okay They give us the details the billing details and then Piper goes away and then just does the PDF for the agreement Unfortunately Alex Savio could not make it to this conference because he has to learn German and Hopefully maybe next year he can he can join again. So that's really very unfortunate that he changed jobs and couldn't help us Couldn't continue his very active help until then that point These are the most active team members in 2017 So as you can see not very many people And this is the reason why it was really a lot of work for most people on this list right, then There's an issue of course, and I don't want to hide it. This is the Python, Italia Setup that we had originally we thought because Python, Italia had run your Python for three years in Florence very successfully with lots and lots of help with lots of enthusiasm We originally thought when basically working with them again for this year that everything would be more or less the same And it turned out that Something we didn't know was that Python, Italia had a huge issue or has a huge issue with having volunteers or finding volunteers themselves and so essentially the only help that we got was Patrick who worked a lot on the website and He also because he's now the chair of Python, Italia He also Was very responsive in signing the the contracts of course And we had Mateo help with the bank transfers and the finances So basically Mateo was our interface to the financial side of things But essentially that was about it For the for the help from Python, Italia. We did have a lot of help from Francesco He's not here Here on site so when we came to the conference it just Francesco started basically just living up to being a really good volunteer and He helped a lot on site So essentially basically our expectations were not fulfilled and this had a huge burnout effect on the active organizers so what we did is to as compromise for this we Basically changed the contract details that we had originally the the idea was always to do a 50-50 split between the local organization and The EPS for the profit and we've now renegotiated that to cap the amount The profit share of the Python, Italia to 10k And we're both fine with that and I think we've basically I think that's a good solution to to basically the issue Of course this whole thing reminded us that we need to rethink the whole way of how we do Conferences because what happened this year should never happen again because it's simply If it ever happens again, and we don't have volunteers who are willing to put in three to four hundred hours Into the organization then your Python won't happen. Simple as that And so we need to figure out how to when going forward how to address this and to make it to make it less of an issue When basically volunteers break away and We're going to discuss this in this open space session later on so we don't have we don't have any good Basically recipe for this of how to do it. We know a couple. We have a couple of ideas of how we can improve things but it's It's very difficult to actually communicate Because on one hand we don't want to make it look like that Okay, let's let's start differently just to give you some idea of what the issues are when Europe Python goes through to a country Then of course your path is a large conference And so you get a lot of attendees there when that country hasn't has a local conference like a local Picon It essentially means that basically Europe Python overrides the local conference And it's it's we've seen that with Python a Picon Italia when they did your Python and then your Python moved on to To Berlin in that case What happened for Picon Italia is that their attendee counts they dropped by at least 50 percent probably even more I don't remember the exact numbers, but Giovanni told me that it was a significant hit for them And it was very hard for them to basically reach the same levels again as they had before the conference and This is one issue the other issue is that of course you when you have a local team or you want the local team to actually participate in this they Need to be available So if you have the local conference and Europe Python be too short after each other With not enough time for for the local team to basically recover and get new energy and so on Then you can basically not rely on the local team anymore And so that's one of the issues that we we have to address the other issue is that the local teams often don't have the expertise to to talk to venues like these because they usually do The conferences in much smaller venues or even hotels where it's a lot easier to negotiate these things With these venues they tight. They really try to make a lot of money And so you have to be very very careful when setting everything up We do know how this works. And so we need to basically We need to do the negotiations directly with the venue instead of just going via a local team Anyway, I'm going to talk about more that more about that in the open space session But this slides already shows a few things that we need to address so we want to Not realize so much or having to realize so much on the On-site teams anymore. We want to set up the whole process of selecting venues using a commercial RFP process I don't know if you know, but how that works So essentially you you give them you send them a spreadsheet with all your questions and they have to fill it in You set up a timeline for that They need to send you contracts and then they basically they are competing for you So they would the venues would be competing for your Python conference rather than us saying we want to do with the Conference at your site which puts us into the weak position Because then they can be because they know they are the only conference venue in that location Which can actually do your Python you normally don't have to in a single location for more than a thousand attendees and This process would make it better for us because they would compete for us and we'd also get better prices and Then we also want to move away from this profit sharing with the on-site teams Instead what we want to do is or what we are not we want what we want to do But what we think would be a good approach would be to issue grants and with grants I mean not just a few thousand dollars a few thousand euros but Like significant grants like like 10 K 20 K depending on on how well everything worked out So these are some of some of the ideas that we have nothing is set in stone yet. We need to discuss So we think that we want to get into contact with local teams. That's just basically meant for Later on in this open space we have already we are already discussing with People in in the Czech Republic, so we're currently looking at Prague as one candidate the other candidate is Edinburgh in Scotland We don't have actually we don't have a group there yet. We can talk to but we know a couple of people really well Which we can ask and which could provide support for us there but of course we're gonna Do the RFP with with more venues than just these also to to get a better view of what's available what we can do and And Then we will probably have to decide on the venue based on the venue quality and the cost that we have and then Talk to the local team to make everything To to work out everything and to make sure that we don't overwrite their local Conference and that we don't get in the way because we want to work together with the local team Because I mean the whole point of the EPS is to help the community not to work against it, right? Okay, so I need to speed up a bit We still have this issue with the domains with the your president or domain, but we've not done anything We have a your president TV Domain which basically goes to the YouTube channel. We use your president IO for systems your president EU for the website We have the trademark of course we tried to for this conference to create a new logo The process didn't really work out that well. We tried 99 designs to get a new design Didn't really help then we basically hired the designer from last year again to update the logo and we came up with this logo which is inspired by the sea and the The umbrellas that you have here on the on the beach So it looks nice. I think everybody likes it and This worked well Then for the EPS organization Last year if you remember we discussed moving the EPS out of Sweden and to some other place where we have more control Especially because we at that time we did not have any access to our own bank accounts but fortunately Anders hammers hammersquist Volunteered to help us with this he works at open end the organization where We have our our registered address so that's very helpful He can get all the paperwork for us. He is very well connected locally to Accountants and to banks. So what he did is he essentially set up new bank accounts for us at the SEB So before that we were at sweat that sweat bank. We closed that account or those accounts. We had to We now have two new accounts for euros and for sek at the SEB and Setting this up was very easy because he personally knows people at the SEB branch and so it's just really Made things a lot easier. He also helped us get the VAT ID This was a bit of a mess before because we already had tried to get a VAT ID before and they basically declined as giving one declined giving us one And usually if they decline once it's hard to then actually get one afterwards But he managed to do that and so we now have a VAT ID which makes it basically possible for us to for example sponsor invoice the sponsors directly and That's what we've also done for Europe Python 2017 so all the sponsor money goes directly to the EPS so this is Very good news. So essentially what we did and at that point was we postponed this moving to a different country What we still have to figure out is whether we can by using that VAT ID that we have where we can get VAT back from other EU countries We had an accountant She told us that it's not possible to do this Because the EPS is a nonprofit Now we have a new accountant And they are more experienced in EU VAT issues And perhaps we can figure out a way to make that work because it would enable us to actually then enter contracts with the venues directly Rather than going through the local organization VAT in general is a huge issue it looks easy to handle between companies but Because of the EU regulations for conferences The regulation going like this when you do a conference in a certain location You have to pay the VAT in that in the country of that location So EPS being in Sweden In this case Europe Python being in Italy It means that we have to pay taxes in Italy in order to pay taxes in a country You have to have a local tax representative for that. So we would have to hire Now we have Python, Italian doing this of course, which makes a lot makes things easier but normally we'd have to then hire a local tax representative doing all the tax reporting and then we'd have to get the taxes back again from From Italy basically against the all the expenses that we have and so on and Then because we don't know whether we can get VAT back in Sweden for Expenses that we have in other countries We basically decided to go with the local organization do everything via that and then basically Not have this issue So what we did in order to make that happen is we gave 40k To Python, Italia at a 0% loan And basically in order to handle all the initial payments for the contract here The All the direct contacts were done by the by Python, Italia So they basically sign up for the venue And so going forward unless we get this whole thing with the EU VAT sorted We have to continue doing this to make things easier. So right now Python, Italia is doing the ticketing doing the Local sourcing of things that we need and we basically get all the sponsorship money directly into the EPS and then later on when we basically then Decide on how things should work out how the budget should be split the profit and so on We have to then do one transfer at the very end between the two organizations to make to even out everything Okay, so I already talked about this EPS wants to become something like a European Python software foundation So we want to help the community Short-term we funded PyConDE 2016 we funded the Django Girls Europe Python with around 7,000 euros And we had this Ticket discount coupon Activity that so we're basically we send out emails to user groups in Europe to give them Easier access to the Europe Python conference, right and I'm getting a bit tired Now it's the time for the Treasurer report Yes current assets in the bank account All right Anna sent the The details with my mouse there it is He sent the details just a few minutes ago. So let me see what I can find Interesting, okay, so I can't I can't see what you're seeing. So let's just say I showed this, right? So like I said, we we gave around 40k to Python, Italia So before we had the the payments from the sponsors coming in we essentially Well, we didn't have anything much left in the bank accounts. So I think maybe should be something like 10k or so I don't know whether it shows up here somewhere That is a good question. It could be an SEC unless it says somewhere No, it says EU up there. No, that's you Okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna report this afterwards when I have actually had a time to look at this Anyway, we have enough money we have at least 40k because we're gonna get that back We're gonna get the extra money from from 2016 in the next few months and then we're gonna finish the this conference Probably with the profit as well. It's not clear yet on How big that profit will be But it's it's gonna be a profit of at least of at least 10k I think Probably more like in the area of like 30k. So a third. Yeah, 30k like what we had in the last year Right, so we do have we have two bank accounts as a key SEC for for Swedish Cronus We need that account because all the local tax payments go in SEC Plus if we want to send money elsewhere, we have to like for example USD We have to use that account and we have a euro account for everything else then we have PayPal It's connected to the SEC account and we have a credit card now all thanks to Anders So Anders is watching this on video. So maybe we can give him a big hand for helping us Okay, now it's time for the auditor report auditor this year was Stefan It's the fun. Do you have anything to say? I discuss with Anders and with Mark about the accounting and in fact, we have no issues with the accounting We need we wait for some invoice For some heavens, but everything is okay for me because I check it the incoming incoming invoice and how going for the sponsoring and Accepted for the the conversion from dollars to euro everything is okay. So We have to put that in the notes as well So the next point on the agenda is discharge from liability for the 2016 2017 board. So we need to vote now so So do we discharge the board for my Liability last year's work Everybody's was in favor. Please raise your hand. I Think the board should abstain right Okay, thank you very much Then we have candidates for the board 2017 2018 As you can see a couple of board members did not run again for board a couple of from the existing board So we have Christian we have Daria. We have a new candidate is Jill Jill maybe you can tell us a few things about yourself Welcome Jill Hello, I'm Jill and I like Python and I like hopping out here So you've probably seen Jill run around the conference venue all the time he's chair of the support work group So he has a lot to do there Then we have Anders Anders is not here unfortunately Anders would like to run for board as well and he manages basically the The financial side of things and he would then if he's elected for board He would then become the treasurer of the EPS Alexander you know myself and Alex Savio. He cannot be here But he would still wants to help on the on the board and he has lots of institutional knowledge and contacts and So the existing board thinks that this new board is actually very good board. So Now let's let's vote for the for the individual members. So we're going to do individual votes What we are going to do is we're going to vote for each one the positive votes abstains and No votes and then someone gets on the board if they have more yes votes than no votes That's how it works Now we first vote for Christian Christian Barra, so who's in favor for Christian Barra being bored Christian you're You're yes as well. So let's say 16 in favor just double checking any abstain Non-favor. Okay 16 votes or Christian every no, yeah, no zero. Yeah, huh? Of course, they can work for yourself Everybody can work for themselves. Yeah, sure you can vote So the next is Daria So who's in favor for Daria staying and or being a board member for this year upstain Upstain Who's not who says no So basically, yeah, it's also like you also voting for yourself Okay, then we have 16 slides. Just like keep it simple All right as an X or Jill Jill Bertolt on Concobs So who's in favor of full Jill and I said 16 Stefan you're so fair. Yeah, so 16. Yes Just like for the record abstain No 16 in favor For under summer come our quest in favor Yeah, so It's 16 in favor abstain No Then I would like to ask Daria to do the next What candidate because I cannot be leading the session and we're like chairing To voting for be Alexander hendorf in the board this next this next year Plus one we have Roberto, okay, let's continue with Mark Andrea Lambert or chair favor so That's 17. Yes of stain no Alexander Savio who's in favor Like 17 in favor Upstain No, yeah 17 in favor Okay, then we need to elect elect a chair of the board. I Basically nominated my nominated myself again Which I mean no one wants to do this so Who's in favor mark Andre stays our well beloved chair So I see 16 is 17 in favor just like abstain No 17 in favor the reserve Then we have something new this year This is kind of like a bit of a last-minute thing We wanted to add a new position to the EPS Vice chair position because the bylaws currently only have a chair position and because the chair is rather important for the EPS because the chair has to essentially sign the contracts If the chair breaks away, then basically the EPS becomes Well dysfunctional so it cannot operate anymore and what we think is it would be a good idea to have a vice chair position so that the vice chair can then basically Fulfill the chair positions in case the chair has to step down or Just it's not available anymore So It says please vote here. You haven't seen the changes. These are the changes So you can just I can just read them. So one change is that we have On the agenda for the for the General Assembly. We're going to add election of the vice chair person of the board and then position 13 it now says the board consists of a chair person the vice chair person person and two to seven board members Previously, we had just a chair person and two to eight board members the chair not being counted in this case as board member And in this case in in case the chair person steps down during the election term the vice chair person shall replace the chair person for the remainder of the term In case the vice chair person steps down as well the board may elect an intermediate chair for the remaining of The term or call in a General Assembly to vote in a new board So this is what we'd the old Board would like to suggest as change We need to vote on this Does anyone have any issues with this I mean just maybe all questions Before we won't Okay, let's vote who's in favor for these bylaws change. Yeah 17 in favor abstain No, so this being effective now. We need to vote on a vice chair Alexander nominated Himself or I pushed him to Okay next thing so we need again an auditor for the bank accounts And we need one replacement against the auditor becomes unavailable to do the actual auditing Any volunteers for this okay, so who's in favor that Stefan or should be nominated? Yeah, who's in favor? Who's that Stefan? It's the auditor for the European society It's just for one year. So So 17 yes abstain nobody Against nobody And we need a replacement or basically a backup. Yes, and I think Yeah, we need one more like a replacement auditor So we need a volunteer because Rahul was doing it before it's not here unfortunately So and actually it's an easy job. I actually I started as an audio auditor In Berlin so It's it's it. Yeah, so it's the easy thing. So We need to speed up a bitch. Yeah, it's the order Must in order be a member. No, no, okay, then Mario volunteer to be auditor So who's in favor or for Mario teal to become the placement auditor or like backup auditor? Okay, I see 17 in favor abstain No, okay, just just to double check because you raised your hand to enter like you are your EPS members Are you already a PS members? I could could I just ask what's what's the next session after this one? Yeah, just like check. Okay, so 17 yes, and zero abstains and zero Coffee break. Okay. So can we can we over? Can we overrun a bit or is Okay, so let's just speed up a bit and then So that we still manage this so the next thing is optional election of a nomination committee the idea being that we have a committee that basically then checks all the nominations and Proposes them to for the next election We've so far never needed this. We don't think we're going to we're going to so The the board thinks that this is not needed, but it's really up to you. I mean If you think this is needed, then please pick up otherwise we can vote on not having it Who's who's in favor that we said that? Oh, no, let's say who's who's okay that there's no Election committee nomination committee for For as proposed by the board. I'm not 17. Yes abstain No Thank you Okay, we're almost done so budget presentation So basically this is what we what we did with the money that we had Like I said, we we funded a few smaller events We also started buying for this for this conference We started buying goods that we want to keep as EPS those are will be will be EPS owned So we bought power strips quite a lot 150 140 of those We bought the roll-up displays that you see around here the schedule banner the large one outside Those were all bought in a way that you can reuse them in in future years So we're going to put everything into storage box here in Rimini and then when we have the location for the next conference We're just going to ship everything over there. We bought the TVs. We bought routers. We bought APs for the wireless backup APs using mobile SIM cards We rented the storage box for everything And we have regular expense, which is it's the only regular expense that we have its web servers about a hundred euros per month and Everything else that we did was basically handled by Meteor from Python, Italia with the help of Christian This Christian Lennon is his credit card because Python, Italia doesn't have one and for buying on Amazon. You need one So he helped a lot there so this is the Basically the budget presentation That we have I could also show you the budget. We don't have time for that now, unfortunately. I Can show you later on if you want to or you can just come to me so We need to vote on accepting the budget and we need to vote on the decision on the membership fees So far the membership fees have always been not always actually they were one euro in the early days and But no one actually collected the euro And then at some point we set it to zero, which is more realistic Right. Yeah, it's two votes. Yes. So who's in favor of that? We accept the budget as proposed abstain Who's against the budget? No, no, we're on the budget we're on the slide before we on the budget So, okay, then again, who was in favor of that this budget is fine for our financial plans It's just a planning thing actually so 16 abstain one abstain and Against knows their nose. Okay, and now we move to the membership fees Do you do something you want to say about like Yeah I think I Think no, the thing is I mean we only have like 180 members or do you know 182 so and basically collecting the money five euros, which I think would be a fair amount But we also have would have like a lot of administration stuff and we would carry so basically I think basically I think we should rather stick with zero because we have administration overhead them and we need a volunteer to do that and You know, like getting people's bank accounts and stuff. So I don't think I don't think really make any money from it Okay Raise it to 1,000 euro Because then the So that would be a realistic amount to Who's in favor that we the membership fee stays at zero euros for next year. Okay. I think that's the farm like 17 Obstains No, like 17 in favor Hope things. Okay Forget the police vote here because we have not received any motions from the members so we can skip this and we're done So if you have any questions Please ask now or if it's something specific to 2018 then please come to the open space session. Otherwise It's a thank you