Pablo Duboue wrote: > (drdub) Following a discussion with Ana, the project might save quite > a bit of money if buys the tickets for key contributors very early on > the year. [...]
I don't think that's true. Particularly with modern computerised demand-based price-setting systems, the prices fluctuate over time. Earlier does not always mean cheaper. I know that caused me problems applying for travel sponsorship for debconf 8 (which I got from another source in the end IIRC) where I think I had to enter into penta a high "open" ticket price to be safe and then I was not able to edit it when the price fell. > Following this idea, I propose we split the people we fund > into two categories: "Debian award" attendees, which are selected by > the project in, say, November/December and the project decides how > much money they'll need to travel to the location. The process for > selection is similar to the current herb process. The recipient can > opt for not receiving the award and it will then go to the next person > in the list. The project can use $10,000 to fund this, for example (or > separate DC(N-1) money specifically for that, pending the result of > Friday's BoF). If the money assigned to the person is considered > insufficient, the Debian contributor can then ask for extra money in > the second round, which is similar to how we have conducted it this > year (i.e., contributions / money requested? / need? weighted). [...] Why only two? I expect that will mean, for some people, one round could be too early and the other too late. I feel that it would be best to have multiple roughly equally-funded rounds of sponsorship grants and ask people which round(s) they wish to enter based on when their tickets will be available/feasible. Hope that helps, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
