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 withing Europe (although I expect there is > an upwards trend in flight costs in Europe as well, I believe that this > curve is significantly steeper outside). > > 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 > significantly since then. If you update these costs in Penta, you loose > your place, if you dont update your costs, then you may find out that > when sponsorship comes that the amount you receive is not going to be > enough in the end. So you are stuck waiting, and every day you wait the > chances grow slimmer that you will be able to go at all. > > Its a tough spot for all, but having the prioritization meeting to give > people an idea would be helpful I think!
Buying plane tickets is a sure way to lose money. In my case, I bought my ticket back in February, but (blame the flu or whatnot) if I were to buy it today it would have been US$700 cheaper - Half the price :-/ Yes, we would really need a better process. But that would require having a constant fund we can rely on to ensure sponsorship earlier on. It is a though spot, but... In the end, this might be the only conference that goes that far to make sure that everybody that should be there is there. Greetings, -- Gunnar Wolf - [email protected] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
