El mar, 17-02-2009 a las 15:32 -0700, Stormy Peters escribió: > I think the 200 € was intended to apply to GUADEC. GUADEC is most of > our travel money. But it could be set on a case by case and could even > be lowered or waived on a case-by-case basis.
Seriously, I don't like this. Telling a student who's been contributing on his free time to the project that he needs to request special consideration if he can't afford those 200 € could even cause him not to apply at all. I think GUADEC is a special kind of conference in the sense it needs to be inclusive, specially for people who is not so integrated in the community and for whom attending may have a huge impact on their involvement. Maybe hackfests and other local conferences may suit better for the approach you propose, but definitively not GUADEC. On the other hand, case-by-case basis are going to slow things a lot and make even more difficult to get decisions right on time for those who simply can't afford a participation. If in Vilanova, a 200 € participation would have been requested, I couldn't have afforded it and I don't think I would have dared to ask for a special consideration (I wasn't too involved at that time to feel I would have "deserved" it), so I wouldn't have attended GUADEC. And I have to say that not attending would have made a huge difference in the way I see the GNOME community and project. I'm sure I'm not the only one with these feelings. Claudio -- Claudio Saavedra <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
