Hi Nicolas, ----- Mensagem original ----- > De: "Nicolas Dandrimont" <ol...@debian.org>
> > Speaking for the bursaries team: > > I don't expect nor would like our acceptance threshold for *travel* bursaries > to be significantly higher than what we did this year. Hey, positive thinking! :-) > The accommodation bursaries have been pretty much attributed on an "anything > goes" basis (which may or may not change next year, depending on budget and > other things). With that in mind, I don't expect the number of requests to be > significantly higher next year than they were this year. > > From looking at data over the past few years, the publication date of bursary > acceptances will not significantly impact those numbers. I would even expect > that requesting that people sign up earlier will generate *less* requests, > because of people who cannot plan this far ahead, or people who will have > missed the deadline because it was so much earlier than usual (some members of > the core organization team managed to slip the deadline this year, after all). > > 268 hotel spots is 100 more than the number of accommodation bursary > *requests* > that were made last year. It is 160 spots more than the accommodation bursary > *grants*. > > In my opinion, in the current state of things, the only way this number may be > reasonable is if the booking accounts for people who would like to pay for > their own rooms. In that case I hope we can find another solution than having > Debian/DebConf/SPI pay for the rooms, but rather let attendees book their room > on their own and arrange payment. > > You'll want to figure this out before binding DebConf into renting that many > rooms. If someone ask for flight tickets + accommodation, and you don't have money enough, is it possible deny the flight tickets and give only accommodation? I'm thinking people from local community that ask both, but can have accommodation, and pay for own flight ticket. I have no idea how many cases like that we can have next year. Ah, I was forgetting: zobel, yes, we will have a contract with the hotel ;-) -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana (phls) Curitiba - Brasil Membro da Comunidade Curitiba Livre Site: http://www.phls.com.br GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450 Apoie a campanha pela igualdade de gênero #HeForShe (#ElesPorElas) http://www.heforshe.org/pt
