Hi, [Phil/Richard] and I have been planning a BOF at DC11 focused on DebConf travel sponsorship. This is not in response to Clint's blog post (check wiki page history), but has the same goal of wanting to improve the process and be more transparent and community-oriented.
Clint's blog post: [clint-blog] http://xana.scru.org/xana2/mact/travelherb/ This post reflects Richard's understanding of the process (see also [wiki-travel]), but this year's travel sponsorship lead said "that's not how it works" regarding [wiki-travel] but did not elaborate on how it actually works. Wiki page describing ideas for travel sponsorship improvement: [wiki-travel] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/TravelSponsorship Wiki page describing the outline of DC12 BOF: [wiki-travel-bof] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf11/TravelSponsorshipBOF Please contribute to any of these wiki pages, or communicate with Richard or Phil about ideas. For now, we are working on an outline for a productive BOF, and can discuss more at DebConf12. No travel sponsorship method can be perfect. Our goal is to be make our trade-offs we make what the DebConf community would prefer. Our final goal will be to produce a proposal for travel sponsorship for DC12, present it to the DebConf team/community and become the future travel sponsorship team. Any of you are invited to take part in this. Right now, the rough plan is for Richard to work on the debconf behind-the-scenes logistics and budgeting, and Phil coordinates the actual selection process with the DebConf community. [Thanks/Cheers], [Richard/Phil] p.s. further planning of this BOF will probably have to wait, as we are currently putting out other fires... -- | Richard Darst - rkd@ - boltzmann: up 715 days, 19:40 | http://rkd.zgib.net - pgp 0xBD356740 | "Ye shall know the truth and -- the truth shall make you free" _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
