Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

That sounds reasonable to me. It requires less effort to raise awareness among current participants, and we can pretty easily create an order of operations for people not currently involved or planning to pre-register. Can we also include a link to a write-up about the Diversity Sponsorships (the

[Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

Diversity sponsorships are great. It's nice to help people get to DebConf and hang out (and hack) with our new and pre-existing Debian friends. Some people expressed interest in being part of this process. The line item in the budget is 150,000ZAR (about 9.300USD or 8,400EUR), which I think will

Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

Molly de Blanc writes: > That sounds reasonable to me. It requires less effort to raise awareness > among current participants, and we can pretty easily create an order of > operations for people not currently involved or planning to pre-register. > > Can we also include a

Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

Re: Martin In general, I think asking people in need to front money is a barrier. Since, hopefully, Diversity efforts reach out to people who are the most in need (and/or less likely to feel empowered to take the steps to get themselves to DC without support), it is a lot nicer to not require

Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

Molly de Blanc writes: > Diversity sponsorships are great. It's nice to help people get to > DebConf and hang out (and hack) with our new and pre-existing Debian > friends. > > Some people expressed interest in being part of this process. > > The line item in the budget is

Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

also sprach David Bremner [2016-03-16 16:19 +0100]: > How, if at all do you (collectively) want this to interact with the > regular bursaries process? It's my understanding that the fundamental difference between bursaries and outreach is that the former is concerned with

Re: [Debconf-team] Diversity Sponsorships

also sprach David Bremner [2016-03-17 22:16 +0100]: > I'd like to keep any additions to the bursaries instructions > relatively brief just because we already know people won't read > them. Why do we give money to those people then (and accept making our lives harder)? --