Budget of Babels International Meeting

Budget of Babels International Meeting

The following budget is taking in account two principles:

•  Direct participation of all the people in relation with their available income and their living place;

•  The common participation of all or parts of trip expenses, accommodation and food expenses during 4 days

These two principles are allowing that anyone participating to this International Meeting share equally the common means and the building of these.

The following budget is an evaluation of the real spending that this meeting would need. Parts of this spending are already taking care of by volunteer actions that will be given either by persons, either by organizations. We decided to make them appear given them an artificial but realistic value in order to underline at the same time the importance and the essentiality of these actions (which account for more than 50% of the budget) without which the common means will not be able to exist.

1- Direct participation table for any registered person to the meeting allowed to receive reimbursement of all or parts of their spending.

•  Note 1 : “OCDE Countries” means rich countries and not the belonging of this country to this international organization

•  Note2 : “Available Income” means personal income once were subtracted their spending (rent, and so on), their debt reimbursement, their financial responsibility toward one or several other persons (children, parents, spouse and so on)

•  Note 3 : The values are calculated in “fake euros” it to say which value equals one “fake US dollar” (1euro=1USD) therefore outside of the “real” value sets by the international financial speculation

•  Note 4 : This direct participation is mandatory for all persons which ever the reality of the costs reimbursed is. Therefore a person who will not need “trip” (see budget for this notion) or who will spend less than the “average budgeted cost” cannot this as a “direct participation”

•  Note 5 : This direct participation is independent from the “value” of the volunteer actions taken by any person whether work or solidarity accommodation and so on

2- Budget

•  Note 1 : “Participants” this budget is based on 200 persons. The reality of this number is based on the actual reality of Babels and “Translation Alternate Equipement” Networks. This figure is not a numerus clausus.

•  Note 2 : “Trip” represents an average cost per person. The estimate done on 200 is that 80 persons will come from Europe, 80 from the Americas , 40 will come from somewhere else in the world. This estimate is made from the reality of the networks today and the emphasis we would like to put in particular on the African continent from which we would try to have as many people as possible. This average cost is taking in account that for the Europeans the real average cost between lost cost companies, train and bus lines, will be around 100 euros or less. This will allow the remaining part of the average budgeted cost to be redistributed on plane tickets for people from further places or from the most remote cities.

•  Note 3 : “Per Diem” represents a participation to the cost of living in Paris . It represents and average estimate for which all the people who feel that the cost of living in Paris is more or less the same than the one in their city, are invited to give away. The amount will be then redistributed evenly on the people who will need a “per diem”.