On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Bryce Harrington <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Do I understand correctly that the lottery is for an access pass, but
> doesn't cover travel or room costs? How many people do you think we're
> likely to get?
>
Yes, you understand correctly. I can't speak for likely numbers. That
depends on interest within our project as well as luck of the lottery.
What I can tell you is that we have had basically ~3 people interested each
year for the past couple years from our mentors and admins. Obviously this
is a little different though since it doesn't have the requirement of
participation this year.
The only thing I can supply is their estimate which is ~220 total lottery
winners (there will otherwise be ~380 people funded to attend by Google).
Their numbers are ~14,000 past participants (no clue if that includes
people multiple times for multiple years).
> How much money per person would we be funding for this? Is it located
> in the Bay Area?
>
That is a great Q. I have next to no experience with international travel,
so I don't know what reasonable costs would be. My guess is that the up to
$1100 for travel that Google does is probably based on something more than
a guess. Yes, the reunion is located at the Google HQ in Mountain View, CA.
The hotel rates for where they have deals (at 2 hotels I believe) is $129 a
night and it's a 3 day event. Based on that, I would think something like
up to $1500 for travel and room would be reasonable. Most of the money we
have is from SoC, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to me at least.
> I think sending admins and mentors makes sense, particularly ones that
> have served multiple times and especially ones that have served
> recently. For students, if the student ended up becoming part of the
> Inkscape project and kept participating and contributing, that's a no
> brainer. But if the student is a drive-by contributor, well I think we
> could spend our money better.
>
I feel the same way. It's worthwhile to reinvest in those who have invested
so much into us. For those that did the drive-by, I don't really feel as
compelled to make it happen. Perhaps we put a stipulation on who we would
choose to fund such as they must have participated (and completed
successfully) with us multiple years or otherwise continued contributing
outside of GSoC?
Cheers,
Josh
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