On 25/08/15 at 10:42 +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]> writes: > >> > > >> > From past experience, the bursaries needs more than one months. The > >> > important part is travel sponsorship, especially for Cape Town, and this > >> > take much time. But let’s see commentary of bursaries team. (OTOH on > >> > your timeline, we have 2 months before opening registration and an > >> > additional month before sponsored registration close, so enough time. > >> > > >> > On past we had A queue and B-C-… queues. Possibly only A queue is > >> > processed in such timeline (and other people are notified about they > >> > status), so that when sponsored people cancel, we can move fund to the > >> > next one. > >> > >> One month for bursaries is tight, but doable if we are well prepared. 1 > >> 1/2 months would be better. It mostly needs someone to drive the process > >> as David did it this year. > >> > >> At the bursaries Bof we thought that the idea of sponsoring more people > >> as others cancel or don't need the sponsorship anymore worked quite well > >> this year. So we will continue to do that. > > > > This sounds wrong to me. For me, the role of bursaries is to decide, for > > a specific attendee, if s/he should be sponsored to attend or not. > > That's a yes/no question (a hard one, but still). If you end up needing > > more budget to cover the sponsorship for all those that should be > > sponsored, just ask for more money from Debian. > > I disagree that it's just a yes/no question. It's a ranking on two > dimensions (contributions to Debian and financial need of the > sponsoree). And for both it's not always obvious where to make the cut.
Oh, sure, I'm not saying that it's easy. But David's cohorts-based algorithm still turns it into a yes/no question in the end (not about individual people, but about cohorts). Lucas _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list [email protected] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
