On 14.05.2013 08:58, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote:
As a final point, I disagree with cate's proposal to forbid people requesting
travel sponsorship from joining the herb@ team: people asking for sponsorship
_are_ a (significant) part of the Debian community and I think we would loose
some precious diversity by taking them off them the team. Then, herb@ team
members requesting sponsorship must obviously stay off any decisions related
to them.
Last year I noticed some "uneasiness" discussing about some herb people
travel sponsorship. Considering the budget constrains, I worry about the
difficulties if the sponsor line is near such people.
Consider also that some people complained about fairness of our
sponsorship (It was mostly about families and children, which BTW we did
not sponsor, but attendees don't know it). So I think transparency is
needed, to avoid useless discussions.
About losing diversity: it could be a problem, OTOH usually herb people
are "senior" developers, who possibly asked travel sponsorship on
previous DebConf, so they know the needs of travel sponsorship people.
Additionally a "requirement" of herb was to have many "senior" people,
aka people who know deeply Debian, personally know many DDs and teams.
The problem is not only to be fair, but to "convince" people that we
acted fair.
About food+accommodation sponsorship: the rules are simpler, and
additionally to be part of herb team, one should demonstrate the
commitment to Debian, so I don't think people will think we will act in
a non-fair manner.
As for me, I'm happy to serve on the herb@ team again, whatever route is
taken.
I would like to be an non-voting member for travel sponsorship, which
BTW was my idea also last year), so I would support herb about mail to
registration, database, scripts (checks and "automatic" mails).
And I would like to serve also to the food+accommodation sponsorship
"sub-team" (it needs more locals to evaluate local volunteers, and there
is much more interaction with registration stuffs).
ciao
cate
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