Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Since we're on the topic of travel expenses. * Didier 'OdyX' Raboud [2019-10-03 13:42]: > I realize I had not read https://wiki.debian.org/Sprints/HowTo recently; my > bad. It has: > > Debian, within the limit of available resources, tries hard to cover travel > > and accommodation costs for

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana
On 02/10/2019 18:33, Sam Hartman wrote: > > * People in Europe and to a lesser extent North America are > geographically privileged in Debian in some significant ways. We > might well choose to spend money to help balance that out some. +1 From Brazil -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/10/03 17:13, Sam Hartman wrote: > You approached me asking for travel approval. > I said that I was having a bit of conflict with the treasurer team > working through some guidelines to apply because of a previous decision > that I had made. I asked how big of a problem it would be if I

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Carter writes: Jonathan> Hi Sam Jonathan> On 2019/10/02 23:33, Sam Hartman wrote: >> Tl;DR: I think that the Mini-DebConf and Sprint process are >> working great and have no plans to revisit those procedures. But >> we can discuss whether we need

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: Didier> Fair enough. But then I wonder what guidelines will be used Didier> to grant, amend, or deny travel support budgets. Surely not Didier> "any" budget is fine (or is it)? I tend to think it'd be of Didier> great support for

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le mercredi, 2 octobre 2019, 23.33:10 h CEST Sam Hartman a écrit : > > "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > >> TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > >> batching together travel reimbursement requests. > > Didier> Yes, but… I think we, as a

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sam On 2019/10/02 23:33, Sam Hartman wrote: > Tl;DR: I think that the Mini-DebConf and Sprint process are working > great and have no plans to revisit those procedures. > But we can discuss whether we need to do that. I don't think it's working great. Earlier this year my request for travel

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-03 Thread Gerardo Ballabio
Sam Hartman wrote: > I strongly believe that Debian should be about free software. Every time we mix in some other issue, we reduce our contributor base and dilute our mission. +1 Just as a side note, not wanting to reopen that discussion -- I guess this would also apply to the issue that I

Re: Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-02 Thread Utkarsh Gupta
On 03/10/19 3:03 am, Sam Hartman wrote: > Tl;DR: I think that the Mini-DebConf and Sprint process are working > great and have no plans to revisit those procedures. > But we can discuss whether we need to do that. > >> "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: > >> TL;DR: Do we want BSP

Expense Rules for Mini-DebConfs

2019-10-02 Thread Sam Hartman
Tl;DR: I think that the Mini-DebConf and Sprint process are working great and have no plans to revisit those procedures. But we can discuss whether we need to do that. > "Didier" == Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes: >> TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of