On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:00:13PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > Jimmy, I have sent you privately the information Richard was talking about, > we are talking here about more than a 10 % of sponsored people. It is not > reasonable.
In my mail I tried to be clear that I am still ok with asking people to give their reason for attending, and then denying sponsorship after the deadline to those who can't give a plausibly conference-related reason (as opposed to a location-specific reason) if it becomes financially necessary for us to do so. I think we mostly agree on that, except that I am urging us not to require visible signs on the Internet of pre-existing Debian/FOSS involvement, and I think that two months before the conference the only way we can apply these kinds of criteria while remaining consistent with our prior promises is if it becomes financially necessary. (The "financially necessary" bit can certainly get dropped for dc11 if we make that clear from the beginning.) Also, my 4% was relative to the total attendance, not the total number of sponsored people. The latter metric is certainly useful when considering how to revise our policies for next year, and maybe also for figuring out whether we need to apply the criteria described above, but the first metric is still valid and looks better to any sponsors who might share Pablo's concern about making sure their recurring contribution is used well. :) Also, 95% of attendees having a worthwile reason to be at the conference is probably way higher than most other conferences, even aside from our financial situation. - Jimmy Kaplowitz [email protected] _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
