Re: [Debconf-discuss] sponsorship allocation team & request
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On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Last year, in the sponsorship allocation team we had several discussions of
> how to improve the process. This year it might be late for some changes, but
> we still can improve it and make it more transparent.
>
> I talked about this mostly with Tincho and Marga. Most of the stuff is
> gathered for conversations in IRC.
>
> First, we talked about having a input field to tell what you do in Debian when
> you ask for *travel* sponsorship. I remember we had this in Mexico and it is
> nice to know what this person does if you do not know him/her. It helps you
> to know if somebody is already a contributor (for example translator of
> language) or just somebody interested who saw the opportunity to ask
> for sponsorship and asked to see what happens :)
>
> Second, Tincho suggested having the process a bit similar to the papers
> process. Committee process people in penta using the voting system and then
> have a meeting to talk about the results. Last year, he had two meetings, and
> some people did not have enough time and look on the debian's involvement of
> the people in the list.
> I am afraid this needs some penta hacking :-(
>
>
> Also, I think marga or gunnar, not sure now, proposed to fund only a percent
> of the requested amount. And instead of start with the ordered list of
> people and fund so far as the money reaches, start funding a 20 % of all the
> people who were approved for sponsorship, then if we get more money, fund a
> 30% and so on. Only making exceptions with people who really needs the funding
> to attend.
> A variant of this, is just establish a maximun amount of sponsoring depending
> of were you come from. For example:
> -spain a maximum between 100-150 (usually less, but some parts are really bad
> connected)
> -close europe countries (to spain...) maximum 200-250
> -far europe countries (to spain again) max 400-450
> - etc, for people coming of another contients it might be a bit more hard...
>
> Ana
>
> PS: Btw, for what I have gathered from the meeting logs, the teams are not yet
> formed, so i volunter again this year.
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