Le dimanche, 26 août 2012 21.31:46, David Bremner a écrit : > 1) Asking for one more number. > ------------------------------ > (…) > We propose to ask for 3 numbers. > > a) total travel cost > b) amount requested > c) minimum useful amount (with less than this, I cannot attend)
I quite like this: it is a step in the right direction IMHO. As I proposed during the BoF, there is one figure that we might want to ask that I think might help sorting the sponsoring requests: the "economical effort". The goal of asking this is to evacuate the economical disparities by asking "how much effort" coming to DebConf would cost to the requesters. There are various ways to ask it: ask directly for the monthly income (quite intrusive), "how many days of full-time job salary", ratio between the requested amount and the monthly income, etc. I'm quite conscious it's a controversial move we'd take but I think it would bring fairness at the cost of more intrusiveness. > 3) Asking more questions Makes the job of the raters harder, but gives them more material, I like it too. > 4) Using references IMHO this brings a substantial risk of tightening the tight set, but it's probably worth trying if we don't put too much weight on it. > 7) What this proposal does not cover > ------------------------------------ > (…) > - Related to that, we need to have some actual estimates for travel > costs, based presumably on guesses about geographic distribution. An interesting question related to that is how (and if) we do evaluate the traveling distance/cost as a rating input: bringing people from far is expensive. So given a limited amount of travel sponsorship money, we might prefer bringing 5 "close" persons instead of one "far" (or the reverse, depending on the individuals at hand). Another thing that we discussed and that might be interesting would be to keep track across the years of who got (and/or requested) how much. This could be another rating input. That goes both ways though: favouring or hindering past sponsored attendees is a decision to be taken. Cheers, OdyX _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
