Hi Gunnar, On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:22:28AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > > Do you possibly want to draft an email calling for such pledges, and it > > can be discussed at the next meeting? > > > > Should we ask people to pledge the marginal cost (about 300 CHF), the > > professional fee (about 600 CHF), or just ask each person to pledge "I'm > > willing to pay up to XXX francs if it can't be avoided"? > > I thank and welcome Andreas' mail, and am joyous we will again have a > chance to meet. However, such pledges have no place IMO. Many people > know we are facing a tough budget, and we should, yes, make clear to > attendees we could use their help. But requiring such pledges (and > making them public or semi- even more) is off-limits.
I fully agree here and I also hesitated to formulate an e-mail about this because this is what I'd call asking people for following which is what I did not want to do (because it is not acceptable). After thinking twice about my offer it might create some mental pressure like "he did this, should I do the same" which is also not intended. > And even if somebody usually comes as a professional, and pledges to > do so again, but cannot do it in the end (that is, before the final > timeframe for sponsored accomodation)... Well, we will not demand them > to. Even if they had blood-signed a GPG-signed document. ... just trying to imagine how blood-signing a GPG-signed document would work. ;-) Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team