On 23/08/10 at 06:34 +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On su, 2010-08-22 at 14:23 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: > > I think it's totally reasonable to use our projects funds wisely. That is, > > if > > you get or apply for travel sponsorship, to help looking for good prices. > > Given that finding good flight prices is hard, would it be worthwhile to > get a travel agent to arrange transportation for everyone? A good agent > might be able to find much better deals than most people, and might not > be too expensive.
On the other hand, the fact that people have to pay themselves makes them more likely to feel responsible about it. If Debian paid on behalf of Debian, I feel that more people could then change their minds about attending. Another option would be to allocate sponsorship for a given trip, to register the best price when sponsorship is awarded (it's not that hard using Kayak, for example), and to sponsor for a maximum of "best price + 10%", for example. L. _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
