David Bremner <da...@tethera.net> writes: > Proposal > -------- > > OK, enough complaining, what's the proposal? > > a) As part of each year's budget process, allocate a budget amount to > each team for funding of volunteers. Presumably this amount would be > chosen in consultation with the relevent team leads, and people on > their teams. > > b) In addition to the other questions, something like "I am applying for > support primarily as a Debconf volunteer on team X", where is a menu, > with ideally links to descriptions, a free form text field, > something like "past DebConf and related experience, anticipated > contribution to this DebConf" > > c) Team leads then decide how to allocate their budget. Ideally this > should happen early enough so that if e.g. people don't get funded > this way, their application can still be considered in the general > pool. > > d) The coordination team can deal with applications from team leads. > > e) There is no step e, hopefully. But maybe I missed something? >
In general I very much like your proposal. I (as a bursaries team member in the last years) think it's a big improvement over the situation in the past. I have one concern though. I think it might be hard for teams to estimate their budget amount early enough and splitting this into many budget items will lead to a lot of unused funds because it's much more likely teams will stay below their budget than go over their budget. We at least need a good way to reclaim this money for other teams or the general bursaries budget. What about a slightltly different process: Each team lead/shadow evaluate the applications from their team and tell bursaries how much money they ideally need. After bursaries has ranked it's applications there is a meeting with the team leads and bursaries where we decide how much money goes to each team and how much to the general bursaries budget. Like this there is much more information about how much money each team needs when the decision is made. I also think that this process is less bureaucratic. Gaudenz _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
