Dear all,
please find enclosed a budget planning and a financial estimate for IFIP TC6 in 2007. These numbers had to be given to IFIP before July 7 in order to include them in the general financial planning which will be discussed at IFIP General Assembly in Santiago de Chile.
With respect to event proceeds and royalties I'm rather pessimistic: More and more event are co-organised by IFIP (in such cases IEEE becomes the main sponsor very often) and royalties from sold books will disappear very soon.
The TC6 funded expenses (best paper awards, student travel grants, tutorials in developing countries) are very similar to the respective cost in recent years. You will see that we will end up in a deficit if all conferences really ask for their BPA's etc.
Please check the calculation and inform me if some items have been forgotten or if some entries might be cancelled.
The budget will have to be discussed and hopefully approved at our next meeting in Paris (Sept. 29+30, 2006).
Best regards Otto