On Fri, 2012-06-15 at 22:06 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > For those people who follow the actual wording in Penta and pay as much of the > travel costs as they can afford, 80% sponsorship is equivalent to 0% > sponsorship. For many of those who just ask for whatever they feel they can > get > away with, 80% might be good enough, though less so for last-minute airfares.
I agree -- changing the questions, and paying everyone percentages is potentially worth trying in a future year, but our current questions ask if people "need" the money and how much they "cannot" fund. So paying a percentage now rewards people who lied in the answers in the hope of getting more than the "need" but doesn't help those who were precisely truthful. It would be sensible, though, for the "you have been granted travel funding" messages to include a polite request to reconsider if the portion paid by Debian can be reduced at all. -- Moray _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
