Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org> writes: > Agreed. What's interesting is the ratio between the income and the > amount requested, not any of both absolute numbers. What I envision is > a list ordered by "days of work needed to produce the money I > request".
I guess I'm not seeing how days of work is different than monthly_salary/20 (approximately). So you may as well just ask for salary. I can also imagine people with same salary having vastly different amounts of money left over to spend on travel. But maybe this is covered adequately by the open-ended questions. Anyway, I guess is all quibbling about details. The main question is if there is concensus that the privacy loss in revealing income information to the committee is outweighed by the benefits to the process. That was far from clear to me at the BOF. > That's it yes: it can be hard to enter the well-connected set of people: I'm > afraid that this would favor new people in established communities (say, a > member of the Swiss cabal) over new people in unknown communities (say, an > african DD…); the first would probably have less problems finding references > than the latter, yet this wouldn't mean he's "worth" more to have at DebConf. It's hardly scientific data, but I had a conversation with somebody who didn't get travel funding for DebConf12, but felt that a reference from somebody they worked with on a well-known team could have helped. So at least the intent is that people who are active within some subset of Debian but less know globally have a better chance. As another anecdote, I recently learned that a DD I had not heard of since DebConf10 was doing really good work in the New Maintainer process. If that conversation had been a reference, it would have really helped a request for travel sponsorship. If nothing else, it could help because most DDs are bad at bragging, but usually better about saying nice things about other DDs. David _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
