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On 2019/06/20 06:50:08, Myrle Krantz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 11:42 PM Joan Touzet <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is all moot anyway. The Board has denied the funding for Outreachy. > > Let's drop the topic, nothing good will come from it. > > > > I'd like to refine the above statement because it could be misunderstood. > The board didn't vote on funding for Outreachy at all. The discussion > could not be completed in the time available. We removed this item from > the budget, so that we could bypass the discussion and pass the budget. > Repeat: no vote (neither formal nor informal) was taken on Outreachy > funding, and certainly no negative result to such a vote. Agreed. There are directors that have indicated they would cast a -1 vote if Outreachy was funded from general funds (transparently, I was one of them). However, there may be a mechanism via targeted sponsorship to facilitate this (transparently, I was +.75 on that idea). What we decided on the board call yesterday is that more research is needed and the dialog should be allowed to complete. As an action for my part of the conversation, I started a topic on [email protected] to confirm capabilities via the targeted program: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1daf8d767f6be8db825ec96b6902698ed68eec5815a1ac1958aa064f@%3Cfundraising.apache.org%3E > > Nonetheless, I believe that the form in which a sponsor pays Outreachy > directly, rather than through the ASF, helps us in several ways, and I'd > hope that we pursue that. +1 With my VP Fundraising hat on, I would very much like for us to consider overall Sponsor UX through the process. I'd also point out that if funding went directly to Outreachy from a sponsor, no ASF budget needs to be planned/allocated, thus leaving the budget exactly as it was passed yesterday. > > The committee will continue to work on the secondary funding option, > > which has been proposed in parallel by about 20 people. ;) > > > > Actually, credit where credit is due: Greg proposed it first. Which is no > surprise because he was instrumental in introducing GSoC as well. : o) Heh - as you may see in the fundraising@ thread above, I stumbled on the same thing. I'm convinced that at least 80% of my great ideas of ideas Greg has already had ;-) > > : o), > Myrle >
