2009/2/18 Sven Herzberg <[email protected]>: > Am Dienstag, den 17.02.2009, 21:35 -0300 schrieb Bruno Boaventura: >> Hey Stormy, Dave and Claudio! >> >> >> 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. >> >> I'm with Claudio on this issue. Last year I could not go to GUADEC if >> I had to pay 200 € (wait to be reimbursed has been difficult). GUADEC >> should be a special case. > > I totally agree here: I got an invitation of Tim Ney in 2003 to get to > GUADEC Dublin, the foundation covered all of my expences for GUADEC in > Kristiansand, they paid all but the fuel for my Stuttgart trip and they > paid the accomodation and flight for my Vilanova trip. > > None of these 4 trips would have been possible with having to pay 200 > EUR for each trip. Especially students are _very_ short on money, so > maybe we should separate students from other people regarding the way > the y are treated, but I'm all with Claudio and Bruno in this > argumentation. I prefer to have 30 students who cannot affort to pay > anything at GUADEC than 90 who can pay 200 EUR (making up numbers here > to show how I think).
Note that I'm not against a generalized co-pay policy, I'm just concerned about making it a rule set to stone that would have an impact on our ability to foster future contributors. > Regards, > Sven > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
