Hi, Sorry for the late notice, but there's a BoF about travel sponsorship under my name which is really more a full travel sponsorship team kind of thing.
It is scheduled in 414 Schapiro at 1600 today. If you were part of Herb and/or received sponsored money for traveling and want to find a way to improve the system for next year, please stop by. I set up a gobby document on gobby.debiant.net under 414 Schapiro. The name is dc10-bof-travel-sponsorship. I'm kicking it off with the following: (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. 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 Saturday'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). (DrDub) I feel this year we discounted too much for people the herb team felt were asking too much money. If we go for a similar process, people shouldn't be discounted, their amounts should be adjusted. (DrDub) I think we can easily fundraise for specific people if they are willing to go on the record in a suitable Web page. We discussed it before but people felt it was too close to the conference for it to make sense. So we can talk about it for next year... If you don't like gobby, just send whatever you want to have there to me privately and I'll add it. If you'd like to discuss by e-mail, maybe reply just to debconf-discuss? I leave to you to determine which list is most appropriate given the nature of your reply, of course. Thanks and see you at 1600! P. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
