On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 09:54:27AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > I think that one of the problems is that people have different > understandings of "travel assistance needed". What does "needed" mean? > One could use a loan to pay the debconf trip, so even in this case, the > travel assistance is not really "needed".
I think this is an invented problem. There is no reason not to take Debian contributors at their word when they say they "need" a certain amount of travel assistance to attend DebConf. If we aren't willing to trust Debian contributors to answer such a question honestly, we're doing it wrong. Note that in the system I propose, it would be perfectly reasonable for someone to apply for sponsorship and state that their required assistance is 0, and receive travel sponsorship in the end because everyone who *needed* sponsorship got it, with money to spare. > IMHO, the real question is: "how much would the project need to pay to > have you at debconf?" Yes, I think that's the same question I'm meaning to ask - though I don't care much for that wording. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
