Thanks for the statistics, Jimmy! On 07/21/2011 12:46 AM, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship: 50% > > Percentage of herb-team members applying for sponsorship who got a perfect > score: ~83% [...] > Average score for herb-team members who requested sponsorship: ~97 I infer from this that the one herb team member who failed to make a reasonable justification for their large request (the same failure that appears to have sunk Clint's application) ended up with a score of 82%. Did they also end up in queue C? > For reference, although I'm haven't clicked through each person's record to > confirm this, but I think all highly involved non-herb-team applicants other > than Clint both made a justification for a reasonable request The question asked in penta is "What are you doing for Debian? Why do you request sponsorship?" I'm embarrassed to admit this, but i just reviewed my own application. It doesn't look like i provided any justification for my financial need. I don't think i understood that there were two parts to this question. Here is my response in full: >> I'm a debian developer, and active contributor to the project. Aside >> from regular packaging work, i'm trying to improve the toolchain and >> user experience for secured communication and data sovereignty in free >> software in general. See my debcamp workplan for some of the avenues >> of expected work. (the fact that i've been failing at getting any of my debcamp plan done at all is another embarrassment for me, but probably not relevant to this thread) I am grateful for my presence in queue A, since it allowed me to get funding for travel to the conference. But i don't think i gave any more financial justification for my need than Clint did. So i appear to have failed a basic input myself. I do note that i'm more verbose than Clint (in everything, not just penta). If verbosity in application is a relevant criterion for getting travel sponsorship, perhaps that should be made clear to future applicants, so that the naturally terse among us aren't unduly penalized? --dkg
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