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I just want to sync-up and get some feedback before sending the message to debian-devel-announce on the weekend, this email is based on https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2013/05/msg00009.html - ---- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- 8< ----- To: [email protected] Subject: Call for Help: DebConf14 travel sponsorship team Hi all, We are assembling this year's Travel Sponsorship Team to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf14. We will follow most of the past years' procedures, always trying to improve on, specially on transparency. Are you interested in helping us? What is this "Travel Sponsorship Team" all about? A very important part of the DebConf organization is the rating of travel sponsorship requests -- always a hard problem to work out, that involves people and social interaction. And although we have come up with some alternative ideas, we seem to have consensus on staying with the previous years' scheme: Have a team go through the requests, rate them, and assign the money we have for that. This team, the Team of a Thousand Names, is usually referred to within the general DebConf organizing team as "Travel Sponsorship Team", "Travel Bursaries Team" or simply "Herb". Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the money to the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision directly affects individuals. We have tried in the past to include in our team people from various areas of Debian, from different geographic origins, even with diffrent group of friends, in order to avoid "clique-based" rating, or in any way biasing the results. Once again we are repeating the idea of broad call for help, using d-d-a to hopefully reach a bigger part of Debian, as it is Debian funds we will be using and it is Debian-related people (whether DDs, DMs or other contributors) we will be assigning it to. What do we need from those who volunteer? The deadline for requesting sponsorship is on Sunday 2014-05-15, and we are aiming at producing the results by June 1st, 2014, a Sunday. First, some time and patience. You will have to go through the amount of people requesting travel sponsorship (you can expect it to be between 50-150 people), look at their reasoning as to why they are requesting it, how reasonable their requested amount sounds (yes, "reasonable" is too broad a word -- the team will have to decide about it), and rate numerically. Usually, once the requests are rated, we define a cutoff value. Second, an extra bit of time and patience. Once the list is mostly-done, we usually have an IRC meeting to make sure the produced list looks sane, and to find any hiccups before they explode. And if they explode, believe me, it can be ugly. But they don't have to explode at all, as we are nice and careful ;-) Finally, to meet the requests for transparency, we have to report our work, without breaching the privacy of the people who request this sponsorship (again, as this is a very personal, social and money-related topic, it can be very touchy). So, the work will not finish by June 1st, but somewhat later, quite probably a bit after DebConf itself. Again: You don't have to be a DebConf long-time organizer nor attendee. You don't have to be a many-years-long DD. We want the group to be diverse, and that *surely* includes people that simply are not in the same intra-Debian demographic group that most of us are. So, if you want to be a part of the team, please reply to debconf-team @ lists.debconf.org letting us know. We are aiming to have a group of ~15 people to be large enough, but not too large. Thank you! - -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) <[email protected]> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTazXnAAoJEMa4WYSFUi4tU8MP/i1mLMnAujp5RFp3kAS3ggS2 c7P34/wntxQs3jL/x+IC8iByCj+iAwcuTI3cblfTDP9cZjWadPasMglrz7S9pNVt l7+VMoCTCpbYlPRzu7a5yhpfua1lHz4RtDbhEmUDSyDIVBfsiHnOHj5uVCSYl3ca sDsPGNrbLyZcyRb2sDlUhVEuorUNjR0lcw2ulKr+Hb5J7XW2wuFCYY8/UYbVZZDe +S6UmwNCDjAXrkfD52bLaJOAdHTkKVbuwIuFlPk/wa/E6+1ZEbk+0rwqCrTB2EMa mtuPdbdiYokp2nbRy8E655MiQvPPiAjLqAItIybbVD2U4kdZR8U+UnLT23t4a2sT 2e3nlDjKUv/49MSQ/kM78/wQj0GvV3z0CPBHLpT1zBR4AxB/3u8Zb458cH9Wnt4J iCVfUtptdHjo00N5dzytmc443aPWsTfcgw+gnApPWUfcs7lGH/SNh8QO4Zck+Q0z n/n4wcdKpM4oVy/bLcxoTfwLuqWrgph6HltgAWop257izMWjRiPotknnkhirKUJ+ D2cRvOagg0GHB0WMILgFn+u2WPcAcLUCXtaocFslG1I8KvN05KWBAB18nAn2HPvH ee8WBo2rb7MPg3sTC6GrbX6Ryl9szpeGPE0QWSeFz4oqdIpklYDPXsGPMowOOyEV 3zHhWnAo4t8XedOH3bTl =CKeV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
