[Sorry, this mail was meant to the debconf-team mailing list, follow the thread there if you are interested in this.]
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Hi, > > Last year, in the sponsorship allocation team we had several discussions of > how to improve the process. This year it might be late for some changes, but > we still can improve it and make it more transparent. > > I talked about this mostly with Tincho and Marga. Most of the stuff is > gathered for conversations in IRC. > > First, we talked about having a input field to tell what you do in Debian when > you ask for *travel* sponsorship. I remember we had this in Mexico and it is > nice to know what this person does if you do not know him/her. It helps you > to know if somebody is already a contributor (for example translator of > language) or just somebody interested who saw the opportunity to ask > for sponsorship and asked to see what happens :) > > Second, Tincho suggested having the process a bit similar to the papers > process. Committee process people in penta using the voting system and then > have a meeting to talk about the results. Last year, he had two meetings, and > some people did not have enough time and look on the debian's involvement of > the people in the list. > I am afraid this needs some penta hacking :-( > > > Also, I think marga or gunnar, not sure now, proposed to fund only a percent > of the requested amount. And instead of start with the ordered list of > people and fund so far as the money reaches, start funding a 20 % of all the > people who were approved for sponsorship, then if we get more money, fund a > 30% and so on. Only making exceptions with people who really needs the funding > to attend. > A variant of this, is just establish a maximun amount of sponsoring depending > of were you come from. For example: > -spain a maximum between 100-150 (usually less, but some parts are really bad > connected) > -close europe countries (to spain...) maximum 200-250 > -far europe countries (to spain again) max 400-450 > - etc, for people coming of another contients it might be a bit more hard... > > Ana > > PS: Btw, for what I have gathered from the meeting logs, the teams are not yet > formed, so i volunter again this year. > _______________________________________________ > Debconf-discuss mailing list > Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org > http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
