Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
Hello, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) f...@debian.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, We are assembling this year's Bursaries Team to help us rate the travel sponsorship and food/accommodation requests for DebConf14. We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying to improve on, specially on transparency. Are you interested in helping us? Read on! :-) What is this Bursaries Team all about? The Bursaries Team has a very important role in DebConf: they are responsible for evaluating requests for sponsorship, both food/accommodation and travel. Funds for sponsorship are limited, so this team has the difficult task of ranking sponsorship requests to ensure that these funds are put to the best use for Debian. Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the money to the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision directly affects individuals. We have tried in the past to include in our team people from various areas of Debian, from different geographic origins, even with different group of friends, in order to avoid clique-based rating, or in any way biasing the results. Once again we are repeating the idea of broad call for help, using d-d-a to hopefully reach a bigger part of Debian, as it is Debian funds we will be using and it is Debian-related people (whether DDs, DMs or other contributors) we will be assigning it to. What do we need from those who volunteer? The deadline for requesting sponsorship is on Thursday 2014-05-15, and we are aiming at producing the results by Sunday 2014-04-25 to ^^ I guess it should have been 2014-05-25. Anyway, if I could be of any help let me know. Eugene ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:51:28AM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: We are assembling this year's Bursaries Team to help us rate the travel sponsorship and food/accommodation requests for DebConf14. We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying to improve on, specially on transparency. Are you interested in helping us? Read on! :-) Hia, I've done this (almost!) every year in the past, so happy to do it again. Although if you'd prefer some new blood, that's fine too :) Neil ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship for GSoC students attending DebConf
Hi, * Patty Langasek harmo...@dodds.net [2014-05-12 09:13:34 -0700]: On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 02:50:20PM +0200, Nicolas Dandrimont wrote: [...] Thanks for reaching out to us - our sponsorship application deadline is quickly approaching (15 May), so please have those students register for DebConf14 at: https://summit.debconf.org before that deadline so we can fold them into our sponsorship awards. Please have them indicate in the requests for sponsorship questions that they are GSOC students and that Google is already sponsoring travel. Our bursaries team will have decisions made by the end of the month, but step 1 is to get all the students registered in time so they are eligible for sponsorship consideration. Thanks for the quick answer. It makes perfect sense to go through the regular sponsorship procedure considering that, this year, the GSoC and DebConf schedules actually allow it. I just mailed the students asking them to register on summit and fill the sponsorship request info properly and in time. Don't hesitate to ping Sylvestre and myself if there's any issue or doubt regarding the status of a GSoC student. Cheers, -- Nicolas Dandrimont BOFH excuse #78: Yes, yes, its called a design limitation signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
On Mon, 12 May 2014 01:51:28 -0700 Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) f...@debian.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, We are assembling this year's Bursaries Team to help us rate the travel sponsorship and food/accommodation requests for DebConf14. We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying to improve on, specially on transparency. Are you interested in helping us? Read on! :-) What is this Bursaries Team all about? The Bursaries Team has a very important role in DebConf: they are responsible for evaluating requests for sponsorship, both food/accommodation and travel. Funds for sponsorship are limited, so this team has the difficult task of ranking sponsorship requests to ensure that these funds are put to the best use for Debian. Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the money to the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision directly affects individuals. We have tried in the past to include in our team people from various areas of Debian, from different geographic origins, even with different group of friends, in order to avoid clique-based rating, or in any way biasing the results. Once again we are repeating the idea of broad call for help, using d-d-a to hopefully reach a bigger part of Debian, as it is Debian funds we will be using and it is Debian-related people (whether DDs, DMs or other contributors) we will be assigning it to. What do we need from those who volunteer? The deadline for requesting sponsorship is on Thursday 2014-05-15, and we are aiming at producing the results by Sunday 2014-04-25 to give sponsored attendees time to get good prices on plane tickets. We have a week where you'll need to concentrate your work/time so we can produce our results and delivery them on time. First, to be part of the Bursaries Team you can't request travel sponsorship for yourself, the goal here is to avoid influencing the decision process, and also to reduce legal risks for fiscal sponsors. Second, some time and patience. You will have to go through the amount of people requesting travel sponsorship (you can expect it to be between 50-150 people), look at their reasoning as to why they are requesting it, how reasonable their requested amount sounds (yes, reasonable is too broad a word -- the team will have to decide about it), and rate numerically. Usually, once the requests are rated, we define a cutoff value. Third, an extra bit of time and patience. We will try to coordinate asynchronously by email, but an IRC meeting might be necessary to make the final decisions, ensure the produced list looks sane, and to find any hiccups before they explode. And if they explode, believe me, it can be ugly. But they don't have to explode at all, as we are nice and careful ;-) Finally, to meet the requests for transparency, we have to report our work, without breaching the privacy of the people who request this sponsorship (again, as this is a very personal, social and money-related topic, it can be very touchy). So, the work will not finish as soon as we deliver the list, but somewhat later, quite probably a bit after DebConf itself. Again: You don't have to be a DebConf long-time organizer nor attendee. You don't have to be a many-years-long DD. We want the group to be diverse, and that *surely* includes people that simply are not in the same intra-Debian demographic group that most of us are. We are aiming to have a group of ~10 people to be large enough, but not too large. So, if you want to be a part of the team, please reply to debconf-team @ lists.debconf.org letting us know. As you might notice we are on a short schedule, so please, reply as soon as possible, before 2014-05-16 (Friday). I'd like to help with this, I'm a DebConf contributor since DC11, mostly of my work is in registration, visa and do some in herb for DC12 :) Regards, -- Norman García nor...@riseup.net ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
Hi Felipe, On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 01:51:28AM -0700, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: We are assembling this year's Bursaries Team to help us rate the travel sponsorship and food/accommodation requests for DebConf14. We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying to improve on, specially on transparency. Are you interested in helping us? Read on! :-) snip We are aiming to have a group of ~10 people to be large enough, but not too large. So, if you want to be a part of the team, please reply to debconf-team @ lists.debconf.org letting us know. I'm willing to help with this again (was on the team last year, and a few times in the past). Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developerhttp://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
Hi Felipe, On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Norman García nor...@riseup.net wrote: I'd like to help with this, I'm a DebConf contributor since DC11, mostly of my work is in registration, visa and do some in herb for DC12 :) I was on the bursaries team for DC13 and would like to help again. Philipp ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
On 2014-05-12 08:51, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: I'm happy to volunteer ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) f...@debian.org writes: As you might notice we are on a short schedule, so please, reply as soon as possible, before 2014-05-16 (Friday). I'm willing to help if needed. I was on the team for DC12 and DC13. But if you already have enough volunteers, I'm also happy to spend my time with more fun things. Gaudenz -- Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better. ~ Samuel Beckett ~ ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
Re: [Debconf-team] Call for Help: DebConf14 Bursaries Team
On Monday 12 May 2014 01:51:28 Felipe Augusto van de Wiel wrote: We are aiming to have a group of ~10 people to be large enough, but not too large. So, if you want to be a part of the team, please reply to debconf-team @ lists.debconf.org letting us know. I'm available if more people are needed. I have no past experience doing this task, however. -- Regards, Kaare ___ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
