Hi, A couple of days ago, Gismo brought to our attention¹ there was an available HP laptop left over from last year. It is a laptop not expected/claimed back by HP. So, what can we do with it? There was a suggestion to give it to somebody needing a laptop during DebConf, but we could not find a suitable person (of course, suggestions still open). I have heard suggestions about a raffle - Although a raffle is fundamentally fair, I fear the probability points to a laptop that will end up with somebody who does not really need it... ...So, what would you think about requesting people who have a justifiable need² to write themselves up in a non-public list, and later decide between them? The mechanism could be to decide who has a better reason, or to do a raffle between those that requested it. What do you think? ¹ http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20110722.024641.2d400fa4.en.html ² Disclaimer: I expect to put my name in this list, so that disqualifies me as a volunteer for the team ;-)
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