Hi,
let me clarify this as a person who is probably only here (in DebConf, in
Debian) because I got free accomodation and food at DebConf9, when I was
hardly involved in Debian...
On Dienstag, 31. März 2009, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote:
> >> Second question - is it possible for my girlfriend who will accompany
> >> me, to register for any of the sponsored things, even though she has no
> >> formal association with Debian?
> >
> > No, I don't think so. We raise the sponsorship money to improve Debian
> > and the sponsors give it for that purpose. I dont see how that qualifies,
> > sorry. (I assume free drinks at a sponsored party or maybe sponsored
> > participation at the daytrip (_if_ we get that...) might be fine, but
> > thats not what you are asking for.)
>
> I had the impression that in the past, we did allow Debian
> Developers to bring their "Significant Other" and provide food and
> accommodation sponsorship (because this is the same as any other
> person subscribing to penta and saying, I will pay my travel but
> would like sponsored food+accom).
I think there is a difference between someone entering Penta and stating "I
want to work on $foo" (my $foo was FAI in 2003 and I had some track record on
that) and someone stating "I just want to accompany $person".
I'm all for being open and generous, giving (even huge) benefit of the doubt
("$person wants to work on $foo and I can see only three mails about $foo
from $person in the archive, ok, lets sponsor food+accom, that might be a
good investment in the future or not a big loss"), but if someone clearly
states to have no involvement in Debian nor even a plan to become involved, I
dont think we should spent money on that.
It's still more than three months, plenty of time to start to do _something_
for Debian ;-)
regards,
Holger
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