Re: [Debconf-team] My thoughts on reconfirmation, fundraising, etc
On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 12:31:33PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 03:20:35AM -0400, Richard Darst wrote:
> > Ana has also been helping out some today, and identified about 27 of
> > ~200 sponsored attendees whom she could find no sign of free software
> > community related work on the internet - and yes, this is being very
> > broad. She also consulted with others who know of the free software
> > community to ensure that we didn't miss people involved but we just
> > don't know about, but we'd definitely want to do more of this
> > checking.
>
> As I said before, I think it's a mistake to exclude people who don't yet have
> pre-existing signs on the internet of being visibly involved in the free
> software community but who can articulate a reason for wanting to attend that's
> plausibly related to the conference instead of the location. Most $tourists
> won't be able to do that usefully, and the number who can is small enough that
> it's a reasonable price to pay for the many probable new contributors who will
> show up to the first US debconf ever. (I know someone personally who is a
> Debian/FOSS user and is coming and yet doesn't show any Debian/FOSS involvement
> over the first 5 or 6 pages of Google results. I can give his name off-list if
> you care.)
>
> This is not to say we shouldn't ask for the brief explanation as I described,
> or even that we shouldn't apply it if it becomes financially necessary, but
> only that your/Ana's criteria are too narrow.
Jimmy, I have sent you privately the information Richard was talking about,
we are talking here about more than a 10 % of sponsored people. It is not
reasonable.
Ana
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