[QA2012] IRC Non-Meeting end of 2011

Hi,

While we didn't hold irc meetings in the past few weeks, there was still 
progress on the QA Hackathon organization. A few things were said on
irc too, even though there weren't any meetings planned...

Progress:
- mdk managed to get DuckDuckGo to agree to sponsor 1000 USD
- everyone seems to agree that it would be great to have a tradition of
  surplus money getting to the next qa hackathon budget
- elbeho will look at the cost of getting an account in USD for the
  French Perl Mongueurs, to avoid paying conversion fees more than once
- elbeho has started the steps to get a Paypal account for the French
  Perl Mongers
- we have found another french company that could be a potential
  sponsor, and we had a phone call scheduled with them on Dec 21
- from that call, we got 3000 EUR of sponsoring! Thanks Diablocom!
- Hedera Technology sponsored 200 EUR. Thanks!
- we got a first quote for a hotel just in front of the venue.
  Even though they have rooms that can hold 3 or 4 people, these
  rooms include one or two double beds. At 100 EUR / night.
- elbeho will call another hotel this week, that should be cheaper,
  and be able to provide rooms with twin beds, while still being within
  walking distance
- BooK has sent invitations by email to the people listed on the wiki

Here is the current "income" budget (a + means the mongueurs actually
have the money):
+ Perl QA Hackathon 2011   1061.31 EUR
- $foo magazin              500.00 EUR
+ Les Mongueurs de Perl    1000.00 EUR
+ SPLIO                    2000.00 EUR
- EPO                      1000.00 EUR
- DuckDuckGo               1000.00 USD
- Diablocom                3000.00 EUR
- Hedera Technology         200.00 EUR


Next meeting:

    irc://irc.perl.org/perl-qa
    Thursday January 5th, 13:00 CET (Europe/Paris).

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

 The man who most obeys the king is the man who gets crowned.
                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #13 (Epic))