On 06/11/12 16:40, Ana Guerrero wrote: >> - happily choose to become paying attendees as we closed sponsored >> attendence after reaching X applications (because we might choose this >> as our way to deal with not enough incoming sponsorship money) > > This would be terribly sad and unfair.
This would undermine the connection between merit and sponsorship and make DebConf into something of a lucky dip (digital archery[1] perhaps?) If it really is so unrealistic to aspire to the inclusive nature of previous DebConfs, then shouldn't we just admit that this has all just been a big mistake and go back to the drawing board? 1. http://www.itworld.com/internet/302772/icann-replace-digital-archery-program-gtld-domain-raffle _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
