Nicolas Dandrimont dijo [Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:36:15PM +0200]: > Hello, > > I'm one of this year's GSoC admins for Debian, and I'd like to ask whether it > would be possible to "save" some sponsored accomodation and food slots for > GSoC > students. > > I'm asking for this "in advance" because we don't know the students that are > going to be picked yet, and therefore I don't think we should have them go > through the DebConf registration process just yet. The accepted students will > be announced on May 27th at 19:00 UTC. > > The idea is not to have all the accepted students come to DebConf, but to > allow > those students whose mentors intend to be there to come and allow for valuable > face-to-face time. > > There are 19 distinct projects for which students have applied, so that's the > max number of students we're going to get. Seeing the geographical > distribution > of mentors and students, I'll go out on a limb and say that we shouldn't need > more than 5 sponsored accomodation/food slots.
Hi, I think it's completely in place to consider them for sponsored food+accomodation. It would be *very* good to have *as early as possible* the amount of them attending — But even if it was a high number (say, 10 out of the possible total 19?), I would be happy to approve it as it is an important venue for our project to attract new members. Besides, it's not such a far stretch from our sponsored registration deadline (which sat at May 15, and was today adjusted to May 19). > I'm CC:'ing Lucas to make sure that we will be able to get the students' > travel > sponsored another way: we should be able to ask Google for part of it (in the > past, they have sponsored the trip for 2-3 students), topping it off using the > money Google gives to Debian for successful GSoC projects if we need to do so. > Therefore we shouldn't need the DebConf team's help for that. This would be good — Now, please remember that it was suggested (although I'm uncertain whether it reached an agreement) to use GSoC's money assigned to Debian for the GNOME Outreach Program for Women. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
