Hi, On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, Richard Darst wrote: > It is hard to improve things. The order we spend money is: venue > rental, accom, food, <a few other nice things>, travel. If travel is > prioritized low, and we always are short of money, travel will keep > being last.
Yup. And from a conference organizer POV, this order is right. We need to make this conference happen in the first place... On Mittwoch, 20. Juni 2012, Moray Allan wrote: > Yes, I tend to think that travel sponsorship (or at least an initial > batch) should be somewhat separated from other DebConf costs and dealt > with early on. > > I don't think it's even a question of a "bigger bank" and absorbing > costs, as DebConf is part of Debian. Equally, I don't think there's any > very good reason why travel sponsorship should be managed by the same > people who are focused on organising a conference venue etc. /me fully agrees with Moray here. And/but as zack said, *now* is _not_ the time... but just wait 6 weeks, dc13 is eager to improve things! ;-) But their prios are the conf itself as well... cheers, Holger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201206202331.11113.hol...@layer-acht.org