Moray Allan <mo...@sermisy.org> writes: > It has been pointed out on IRC that for several years we have intended > to push travel sponsorship processing earlier, and that it is possible > we can actually do this somewhat for DebConf13. > > How much money is currently available that could be assigned to travel > sponsorship? (We don't need to have the cash available yet, only to > believe firmly that it will be available by the time of DebConf.)
According to the DPL approved budget in the debconf-data SVN repository (dc13/accounting/budget-8days-121126.pdf) there are 25k CHF of travel sponsorship ready to be spent. > > I saw some suggestion that the amount of travel sponsorship might be > relatively restricted. I think that would be a mistake -- we have a > venue to which many people can travel cheaply, so we should take > advantage of that, to subsidise more of them who need it, who would not > otherwise be able to come. I think it is *far* more important to have > many useful people attend than, for example, to add additional DebCamp > days. [But some "setup days" for genuine DebConf team people would be > higher priority than travel sponsorship, in case that part is unclear.] > The 25k are about 40% more than we had for DC12. I don't know how much we spent in the years before. Your debconf secretary of the day, Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
