martin f krafft dijo [Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 06:56:27PM +0100]: > also sprach norman <nor...@riseup.net> [2015-01-18 17:40 +0100]: > > Not sure if it's a good idea but maybe I'm missing something, I'd prefer > > not to have those kind of difference, we always encourage people to > > support DebConf by paying their food+accom and we always have a good > > response of regularly DebConf attendees. > > Marga's idea here is that by acknowledging the support — especially > by professionals, who voluntarily donate 200 € to the conference > — we can encourage others to follow suit. > > Many of us can afford 200 € out of the money we earn using Debian. > Being able to publicly say so, e.g. with a coloured badge, or > getting swag in return is just a nice confirmation.
I am with Norman, I don't like that idea. I start from the basis that people will follow suit if they can. Because we are all devoting our time (thus, our work, thus, our money) to Debian. If I know that Debian is paying for my stay, I'm taking something from Debian (hoping to give back more). The reasoning behind DebConf should stay as evaluating a community of people wanting to do good for the project. I don't think we have a real problem of freeloaders who come on vacation. And visible differentiation is by far not the way we should go. _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
