On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 12:54:44PM +0200, Fabiano Fidêncio wrote: > Also, people really interested in find a way to save GNOME Foundation's > money (as Sébastien seems to be), could approach the Board with concrete > suggestions based on real data, not only on based on "guessing".
It's not only "based on \"guessing\"". IF the Gnome Foundation spends money for GUADEC attendance sponsorship for GSoC and OPW students, an easy way to reduce significantly the costs is to sponsor the students for going to the nearest Gnome conference: GUADEC, Gnome Asia, Gnome Summit, or another local event. Alexandre pointed out that GUADEC is at the right time. But not every OPW rounds are during the summer! So some OPW interns go to GUADEC several months later than the round. So why not doing the same also for GSoC and all OPW rounds (for students not living in Europe)? We are talking about having more long-time contributors. Waiting several months should not be a big problem, and it's _maybe_ even more effective to do so, because if a new contributor is less motivated at the end of GSoC or OPW, the conference several months later can bring back more motivation. How are you sure that attending GUADEC is more effective? It's also based on guessing! But what is certain is that an intercontinental travel costs more, and that is _not_ based on guessing. _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
