Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > 2. prioritise early; and
>
> We are going to try to do many things earlier next year, including travel
> sponsorship prioritization. As for making final decisions, we can't do that
> until we know that we will have at least a certain amount of money for travel
> sponsors
Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> We only want to reimburse people when they actually show up, since it makes no
> sense to sponsor someone's travel that they don't actually take for whatever
> reason.
>
That may be reasonable, but I don't remember that policy being agreed --
I think the barrier to 'imm
Hi MJ,
Unfortunately a lot of important tasks for DebConf9 have happened later than we
would have liked, though it is nevertheless coming together quite nicely. I've
included below a few responses to your feedback from my perspective as
DebConf10 local team lead. We will also keep these issues in
Micah Anderson wrote:
> Those folks who have requested travel sponsorship are trending towards
> the realization that the cost of travel that they initially put into
> Penta was based on the costs that they came to after research into
> flight costs many months ago and now the costs have changed
>
Hi folks,
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 09:54:21AM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
>On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:14:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>> Then it is probably _the_ good moment to dedicate some of the debian
>> money reserves to debconf specifically for enabling sponsorships that
>> would
Micah Anderson dijo [Mon, May 25, 2009 at 04:56:16PM -0400]:
> Thanks for the answer Gunnar, I was also wondering about this.
>
> The biggest problem I think is that for every day that Debconf draws
> closer, the cost of airfare goes up. This is particularly true for
> people who are *not* flying
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:14:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> Then it is probably _the_ good moment to dedicate some of the debian
> money reserves to debconf specifically for enabling sponsorships that
> would otherwise not be possible.
>
> I'm confident contacts among the orga team and t
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On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 03:00:12PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Anyway - The usual aspect of things few months before a DebConf is
> usually the same. We are often pesimistic regarding our money
> status, but end up afloat. Still, this year's recession _is_ a
> strong reality
* Gunnar Wolf [2009-05-25 16:02-0400]:
> Raphael Geissert dijo [Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:59:03AM -0500]:
> > > If you are waiting to know if you'll be granted travel sponsorship or
> > > not, then please wait until you know for sure that you are coming
> > > before reconfirming. If the deadline
Raphael Geissert dijo [Sun, May 24, 2009 at 12:59:03AM -0500]:
> > If you are waiting to know if you'll be granted travel sponsorship or
> > not, then please wait until you know for sure that you are coming
> > before reconfirming. If the deadline comes and you still don't know
> > because of
Hi,
> If you are waiting to know if you'll be granted travel sponsorship or
> not, then please wait until you know for sure that you are coming
> before reconfirming. If the deadline comes and you still don't know
> because of this, please send us a mail and let us know.
When should we expec
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