On 07/20/2011 07:57 AM, Richard Darst wrote: > People are denied travel sponsorship every year. This year, it > included a very active Debian community member, Clint Adams. I am > further disappointed in this decision as Clint was key to DebConf10. > I don't think Clint should be left out like this.
I share your disappointment. Clint is a dedicated and long-standing
member of the community and an active contributor to the project. He
deserves travel sponsorship more than many of us who were granted it
(myself included).
We at DebConf are fortunate to have him at the conference anyway. My
understanding is that his ticket was bought before he heard a concrete
decision, but while prices had not yet leapt up (a responsible and
pro-active way to save debconf money for someone who has no legitimate
reason to expect his request to be denied, given the typical delay of
sponsorship decisions). This is unfortunate for him, but i'm happy
that he's here. But he's now significantly over-spent his budget for
travel; i hope this doesn't discourage him from attending future
debconfs. That would be a significant loss to the project.
> All we are asking is that we be able to funnel this money
> through DebConf,
[...]
> So my question: Will DebConf authorize this transaction?
I don't think i have any authority to answer this question either way,
but if the funds are sufficient, why does it matter whether they go
through DebConf or not? Is the goal here to ensure that these donations
are treated as tax-deductible, or is there some other reason?
I would contribute to help reimburse Clint's travel costs, fwiw, whether
it goes through debconf or not.
> The fact that I am even writing this email indicates serious breakdown
> in the system. These breakdown have been complained about for years.
> As a positive solution to this problem, Phil Hands and I are hoping to
> revamp the travel sponsorship team next year, based on the desires
> expressed by the DebConf community at the BOF we have proposed, and
> being as transparent and communicative about our team as possible.
I support this proposal; i would like to see some concrete fixes
proposed (and implemented) for travel sponsorship in the future so this
sort of thing is less likely to happen again.
Regards,
--dkg
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