justinmclean commented on PR #47: URL: https://github.com/apache/comdev-working-groups/pull/47#issuecomment-5008921883
Long-haul international speakers often need to arrive a day (sometimes two) before the conference to buffer against flight delays and time to recover from jet lag before speaking. The cost guidance should explicitly state this, so an evaluator doesn't score those extra nights as unreasonable. Suggest noting in the estimation/evaluation steps that an arrival buffer night (or two for long-haul/large time-zone shifts) is a legitimate, fundable cost rather than padding. Cost reasonableness shouldn't reward a fly-in-give-talk-leave trip just because it's cheaper. The hallway track is often as valuable as the talk to the ASF. Suggest making full-conference participation a grant expectation under the evaluation/deliverables criteria, with partial attendance fine when there's a genuine reason. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
