Re: BSP Reimbursements

2020-08-13 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Debianites On 2019/10/02 16:43, Sam Hartman wrote: > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > batching together travel reimbursement requests. > > HI. A while back, I suspended the automatic approval of reimbursement

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 19-10-07 18 h 13, Sam Hartman wrote: >> "Louis-Philippe" == Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: > Louis-Philippe> I've taken part in organising sprints, miniconfs, > Louis-Philippe> DebConfs and BSPs before and although I salute the > Louis-Philippe> effort to make the BSP reimburs

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Louis-Philippe" == Louis-Philippe Véronneau writes: Louis-Philippe> I've taken part in organising sprints, miniconfs, Louis-Philippe> DebConfs and BSPs before and although I salute the Louis-Philippe> effort to make the BSP reimbursement process easier Louis-Philippe> for ev

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Louis-Philippe Véronneau
On 19-10-02 10 h 43, Sam Hartman wrote: > > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > batching together travel reimbursement requests. > > HI. A while back, I suspended the automatic approval of reimbursements > for attending BSPs. You can still ask for approval for at

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi
On 2019-10-07 at 08:00:59 +, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 09:26:07AM +0200, Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote: > > I'd think that the main difference from a regular sprint is that on a > > Camp there isn't a predefined theme, people come and decide what they > > want to work

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Holger Levsen
On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 09:26:07AM +0200, Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote: > I'd think that the main difference from a regular sprint is that on a > Camp there isn't a predefined theme, people come and decide what they > want to work on (sometimes in microsprints of 2-3 people). sounds like Deb

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-07 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi
On 2019-10-07 at 10:30:05 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > While I never attended them due to not being in Europe, the Sun/Snow > Camp events seemed similar to Sprints/BSPs; events where folks work on > Debian/FLOSS related things together. I think we need more of these > sorts of events. I'd think that

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Oct 5, 2019 at 4:52 PM Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi wrote: > I'm also not sure that this kind of event is still considered a good > idea from a Debian-wide perspective, so maybe they wouldn't qualify > anymore anyway, and this is all moot. While I never attended them due to not being in E

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-06 Thread Sam Hartman
TL; DR: The previous process was not entirely automatic as Martin implied. I'm fine with a slightly better documented version if the previous process if that's what we want. > "Martin" == Martin Michlmayr writes: Martin> All this talk about who should handle approvals (DPL or Marti

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-05 Thread Tiago Bortoletto Vaz
On 2019-10-05 5:12 a.m., Martin Michlmayr wrote: [...] My only concern with the automatic $100 is the workload it may cause for TOs, but this might not be a huge problem since a) many people won't bother submitting a claim since it's not worth their time (automatically selecting those who real

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-05 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Sam Hartman [2019-10-02 10:43]: > If that ends up being the case I'm happy with some sort of automatic > approval process for DDs attending BSPs (and easy approval for other > contributors when that makes sense). I might be wrong here but my understanding of the $100 for attending BSPs that exi

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-05 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla'' Grandi
On 2019-10-02 at 10:43:37 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > batching together travel reimbursement requests. > [...] > Asking BSP organizers to help with this is great from the DPL side. > The only concern is if it pushes the effort

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-03 Thread Antonio Terceiro
On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 10:43:37AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of > batching together travel reimbursement requests. > > HI. A while back, I suspended the automatic approval of reimbursements > for attending BSPs. You can still as

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-03 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Le jeudi, 3 octobre 2019, 12.54:53 h CEST Kyle Robbertze a écrit : > On 2019/10/02 22:17, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > > Third: what rules-of-thumb, or guidelines do we want for travel support? > > In the context of relatively _short_ events (2-5 days), I think we ought > > to > > put upper limits

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-03 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 12:54:53PM +0200, Kyle Robbertze wrote: > A distance limit effectively prevents people from remoter areas of the > world. +1 (This basically means almost anyone not living in Europe.) -- cheers, Holger --

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-03 Thread Kyle Robbertze
Hi OdyX, On 2019/10/02 22:17, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Hello Sam, > > (I'm hereby answering out of my experience of helping organizing the > miniDebConf Vaumarcus this year, but without coordination with the rest of > the > team). > > Le mercredi, 2 octobre 2019, 16.43:37 h CEST Sam Hart

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-03 Thread Jacob Lifshay
On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 13:17 Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > So what I'd would enjoy to see is exchanges along the lines of: > > - BSP Orga: hey DPL; we organize a 3-days/2-nights BSP and would like to > support travel for potential attendees. We expect about 12 travel > requests; > what can you do f

Re: BSP Reimbursements

2019-10-02 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hello Sam, (I'm hereby answering out of my experience of helping organizing the miniDebConf Vaumarcus this year, but without coordination with the rest of the team). Le mercredi, 2 octobre 2019, 16.43:37 h CEST Sam Hartman a écrit : > TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibili