Holger Levsen wrote: > as I've said several times already, the hardest part is finding people doing > whatever the best procedure for this is. > > The problem with that is that DebConf is quite a lot of work for the team for > 2-3 months before the conf, then the conference itself and then cleaning it > all up, which usually also takes weeks (*). For myself this probably equates > to working 1.5 month full time on DebConf (just during that time). > > Then there is a time of "DebConf break", until we get into the bid-phase, > which ends (in January/February) with the actual decission where the next > DebConf will be in 1.5 years. So thats another 2 months of quite intense > DebConf time. > > And around that time (January/February) the "improved travel sponsorship > team" > would need to start working... > > So adding another period with lots of work 6-7 month before the actual > conference is certainly possible (because we can certainly distribute the > load > more, eg by more people doing the debconf team work), but you should not > expect this to happen just because you propose a saner traveling sponsoring > scheme. > > As the saying goes, talk is cheap. > > Are _you_ willing to make this happen?
Haven't there been lots of volunteers for the next DC in this thread? :) Regards, Joey -- GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. -- The GNU Manifesto -- 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/20120706095543.go2...@finlandia.home.infodrom.org