On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Ana Guerrero <a...@debian.org> wrote:
> 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 :-( If it's not done through Penta, we can still ask people to have their numbers ready before the meeting, and to not rate "I know / I don't know this person" but to actually do the work of looking them up and find out what they do for Debian. > 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. Whoever it is that proposed it, I still think that this is how we should do it. Maybe divide it in queues, so that one "priority" queue gets more percentage that the other one, but among those in the queue, it makes sense to distribute the money evenly, instead of filling whole buckets. > 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... For South America it should be about 1200 € / 1500 USD. (You didn't specify the currency). We could also do this. In the past we have sometimes just rejected people cause they had asked for too much. Instead, we could just adjust the numbers to our parameters and then apply the percentage filling. So that the maximum number granted is min(your request, maximum for your zone). This should be done outside of the meetings, just agree on the maximum numbers, and then fix the numbers for whoever asked more. Finally, about Gunnar's suggestion for slots for continents, I'm not totally sure if I want it or not. When the conference is close, people might just pay for their trip (if it's only 100 or 200 €, most will be able to pay for that), instead, when it's far away, the sponsorship is way more needed. On the other hand, it makes sense to prioritize close-by people. Thus, I can't make up my mind about this. -- Besos, Marga _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
