Hi Ana, On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:24:23PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: > > Hi, > > There were a thread discussing about travel sponsorship for this year, > I am unable to find it now, so allow me a new thread to send my proposal. > > * Forgetting about travel sponsorhip until March 1st > > Some people was commenting in that thread and in IRC about dropping directly > the travel sponsorship for this year because it seems unlikely we'll have > money. Others argued providing travel sponsorship is very important because > if not some people won't never be able to go to debconf (I agree with this). > > What about not considering travel sponsorship in the budget and in the > beginning of March, when we know better how much money we'll have we > reconsider > it again? It will still give people time to do travel arrangements if the > decision is taken soon.
Sounds fine to me, considering the current budget status. > * Managing travel sponsorship request in a different way > > I would also like to propose removing all the debconf travel sponsorship > system from the $PENTA_REPLACEMENT and just ask people needing travel > sponsorship to send an email to the travel sponsorship committee explaining > why they need sponsorship, how much money this person think it will be > needed and how much help need. This allow the committee contact the > person directly asking for more details and also discussing the involvement > of that person in Debian by the committee (not everybody knows everybody). > This could be tracked via a RT ticket, for example. > > This would address the main flaw I saw in the penta-approach: the system > is quite impersonal and it lacks communication between the committee and > the people needing sponsorship. I'd propose that we have a bigger amount of raters for travel $ allocation. And people from the core teams (orga, travel sponsorship etc) would just provide the guidelines for them, but not join the raters' team. If we don't use a rating system provided by penta/whatever it will be harder to achieve. So I'd go to improve/simplify what we have today, but not to leave it behind. Regards, -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .''`. Tiago Bortoletto Vaz GPG : 1024D/A504FECA : :' : http://acaia.ca/~tiago XMPP : tiago at jabber.org `. `' tiago at debian.org IRC : tiago at OFTC `- Debian GNU/Linux - The Universal OS http://www.debian.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
