[you are reading this again because i sent it firstl by mistake to the wrong list...]
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-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
