Hi Sander,
On 29/01/2019 12:18, Sander Steffann wrote:
Hi Amanda,
A diverse RIPE community is a strong RIPE community. For RIPE 78, we're now offering a
way for you or your organisation to sponsor a "diversity ticket" to help bring
someone from an underrepresented part of the community to the meeting.
This is an easy and effective way to pay-it-forward and embrace the next
generation of the RIPE community.
Sounds like a good thing.
However: "For each EUR 1,500 sponsored, a recipient of a diversity ticket will get
one full-week RIPE Meeting ticket (value EUR 350) plus EUR 650 towards travel and
accommodation". So, where does the other 33% of the money go?
Because we're starting off 'fresh' (with no funds available in the
diversity tickets pool to start with), we wanted to use the extra money
towards a pool to fund diversity tickets for future meetings as well as
help towards other diversity initiatives like on-site childcare. I
realise I left this out in the article, apologies for that.
To clarify, diversitytickets.org does not charge us to list our event.
I feel it's wrong for the NCC to keep that money as sponsorship income instead
of using it to make more diversity tickets available...
We agree :)
This should be about sponsoring diversity, not sponsoring the NCC.
Cheers,
Sander
Warm regards,
Amanda
