The PC has the same thing (and my work no longer pays for RIPE, so I am paying for it completely out of pocket).
While I would definitely love any financial assistance with the meeting, last time it came up, we had a discussion about RIPE not being a normal conference, and how the cost of a RIPE ticket does not cover the costs of the meeting by far. Basically I'm neutral on the idea -- I'd love it if it happens, but knew what I was signing up for and am okay if it does not. On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 7:27 AM, Jim Reid <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 18 Jan 2018, at 15:06, Erik Bais <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> The only ‘benefit’ of picking up the WG Chair hat … is a WG Chair lunch > > That lunch is the same as the one everyone else at the RIPE meeting gets. The > only difference is it takes place in another room while a discussion of WG > Chair business and meeting coordination takes place. > >> I asked the Executive Board during the GM, if it is possible to add a RIPE >> meeting voucher for the RIPE WG Chairs as compensation. > > Anything's possible I suppose. However I don't support this suggestion. IMO > it's a Very Good Thing that WG Chairs are unpaid volunteers. Giving them > freebies from the NCC will change the dynamics: for instance the WG Chairs > become (subliminally) dependent on the NCC. We might also see unsuitable > people trying to become a WG Chair for the freebies rather than to serve the > WG or wider RIPE community. > >
