On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:21:47PM +0100, Iain Lane wrote:
> I am not saying that the transfer of money should take place before the
> tickets are purchased, just that it should happen a lot sooner (so that
> sponsorees can estimate their costs with confidence, and so that
> sponsors get more for
On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 03:35 -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> We could decide to allocate travel early, before we knew we'd have a
> surplus, and have confidence we'd eventually reduce costs. However,
> we are too conservative (=responsible) to want to risk having a
> deficit. Thus, the travel-last s
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, , 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, thi
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:03:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Richard Darst writes ("DebConf travel sponsorship"):
> > But there is something we could do: "Summon Bigger Bank". We would
> > basically want something to even out the year to year uncertainty,
> > and average out the travel sponsorsh
Hi Richard!
Thanks a lot for your afford!
Yours Martin
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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:57:08PM +0200, Martin Wuertele wrote:
> * Iain Lane [2012-06-20 16:25]:
>
> > Decisions and transfers of money should happen significantly before the
> > conference is to take place. 4-6 months, as you suggest, is probably
> > about fair. I would very much hope, given t
* Iain Lane [2012-06-20 16:25]:
> Decisions and transfers of money should happen significantly before the
> conference is to take place. 4-6 months, as you suggest, is probably
> about fair. I would very much hope, given the importance of Debconf,
> that Debian is willing to underwrite this cost.
Hiya,
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 03:03:46PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> […]
> The current travel sponsorship system is not fit for purpose. Someone
> who can't go unless they get travel sponsorship can't book their
> travel unless either they get the sponsorship in time to do so, or
> they find some
Richard Darst writes ("DebConf travel sponsorship (was: Re: [Debconf-team]
Budget status - travel sponsorship)"):
> But there is something we could do: "Summon Bigger Bank". We would
> basically want something to even out the year to year uncertainty, and
> average out the travel sponsorship over
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Richard Darst wrote:
> If people are interested, I can research more details and present a
> better report on the practicality of this scheme, and of course, to
> help make it so next year.
As someone who missed out on DebConf6 in Mexico due to travel
sponsorship
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 09:55:17AM +0200, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
> I think we should write a detailed page on wiki (with requirement,
> what we things are the criteria to ask for sponsorship and so
> on...), and provide a email interface (ticket system or a private
> mailing list), so that peopl
Hello,
Note:
We will have an additional BoF at this DebConf. We will try to broadcast
live that session and to take live comments from IRC, so that also the
not sponsored people (and all interested people) could discuss.
It is hard to improve things. The order we spend money is: venue
renta
[ Background for -project readers:
debconf-team was discussing travel sponsorship money this year, and
how it was sent so late, and how extremely non-ideal that is,
considering when it is given so late prices are so much higher that
the money can't go as far. ]
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