On 23/03/26 00:31, Thomas Goirand wrote:
Hi,It appears that in the past, a lot of money has been spent to bring outreachy people to Debconf (sometimes on the name of diversity). Unfortunately, very often, these people are going away from the project after a year, and it feels like a waste of Debian money.
This is a big concern for me too.
Are you willing to continue supporting this? Don't you think it's more important to help the ones that are dedicating a big chunk of their lives, often daily, and for decades, to the Debian project? Isn't in-person conversation with this type of big contributors more important, so we have a chance to improve Debian?
We have separate diversity bursary and contributors bursary. Diversity bursary is a limited amount we spend to get new people to DebConf in the hope to get new contributors, but as you mentioned, it is not working well. I do not intend to stop this all-together, but I want to find better and efficient ways to use this budget.
Now, coming to contributor bursary, though we start off with an amount for contributor bursary, we might go thorough a couple of rounds of revisions based on the active contributors' bursary requests. Last few years DebConf bursary team has been doing a good job in ensuring that active contributors does not suffer from bursary budget shortage.
Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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