On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:51:28 -0700 "Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)" <f...@debian.org> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > Hi all, > > We are assembling this year's Bursaries Team to help us rate the > travel sponsorship and food/accommodation requests for DebConf14. > We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying > to improve on, specially on transparency. > > Are you interested in helping us? Read on! :-) > > > What is this "Bursaries Team" all about? > > The Bursaries Team has a very important role in DebConf: they > are responsible for evaluating requests for sponsorship, both > food/accommodation and travel. Funds for sponsorship are > limited, so this team has the difficult task of ranking > sponsorship requests to ensure that these funds are put to the > best use for Debian. > > Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the > money to the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision > directly affects individuals. We have tried in the past to > include in our team people from various areas of Debian, from > different geographic origins, even with different group of > friends, in order to avoid "clique-based" rating, or in any way > biasing the results. > > Once again we are repeating the idea of broad call for help, using > d-d-a to hopefully reach a bigger part of Debian, as it is Debian > funds we will be using and it is Debian-related people (whether > DDs, DMs or other contributors) we will be assigning it to. > > > What do we need from those who volunteer? > > The deadline for requesting sponsorship is on Thursday 2014-05-15, > and we are aiming at producing the results by Sunday 2014-04-25 to > give sponsored attendees time to get good prices on plane tickets. > We have a week where you'll need to concentrate your work/time so > we can produce our results and delivery them on time. > > First, to be part of the Bursaries Team you can't request travel > sponsorship for yourself, the goal here is to avoid influencing > the decision process, and also to reduce legal risks for fiscal > sponsors. > > Second, some time and patience. You will have to go through the > amount of people requesting travel sponsorship (you can expect > it to be between 50-150 people), look at their reasoning as to > why they are requesting it, how reasonable their requested amount > sounds (yes, "reasonable" is too broad a word -- the team will > have to decide about it), and rate numerically. Usually, once > the requests are rated, we define a cutoff value. > > Third, an extra bit of time and patience. We will try to > coordinate asynchronously by email, but an IRC meeting might be > necessary to make the final decisions, ensure the produced list > looks sane, and to find any hiccups before they explode. And if > they explode, believe me, it can be ugly. But they don't have > to explode at all, as we are nice and careful ;-) > > Finally, to meet the requests for transparency, we have to report > our work, without breaching the privacy of the people who request > this sponsorship (again, as this is a very personal, social and > money-related topic, it can be very touchy). So, the work will > not finish as soon as we deliver the list, but somewhat later, > quite probably a bit after DebConf itself. > > Again: You don't have to be a DebConf long-time organizer nor > attendee. You don't have to be a many-years-long DD. We want > the group to be diverse, and that *surely* includes people that > simply are not in the same intra-Debian demographic group that > most of us are. > > We are aiming to have a group of ~10 people to be large enough, > but not too large. So, if you want to be a part of the team, > please reply to debconf-team @ lists.debconf.org letting us know. > > As you might notice we are on a short schedule, so please, reply > as soon as possible, before 2014-05-16 (Friday). > I'd like to help with this, I'm a DebConf contributor since DC11, mostly of my work is in registration, visa and do some in herb for DC12 :) Regards, -- Norman García <nor...@riseup.net> _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
