On Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:07:53 +0000, Moray Allan <moray@sermisy.org> wrote: > Phil and Richard, > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:32:49 -0400, Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net> wrote: > > ... > > > Phil, would you like to be travel sponsorship team leader next year? > > > > No. > > > > ;-) > > > > > I will provide all support needed to make it a success. > > > > Oh, alright then. (I suppose that's what I deserve for saying the V word) > > > I was looking forward to you two trying a new approach on travel > sponsorship, but I realise that you're both quite busy just now -- do you > think you can set something going to avoid us just reverting back to the > previous slightly broken but known method? I've been thinking about it in spare moments, but not actually getting round to doing anything (babies are very distracting BTW :-) The first thing I should do is ask around for someone that already knows how to do furthest path on GPG stuff, so we can start our semi-random victim selector. > I'm sure you can find other > people to do the main work, but it would be useful for the process to have > an initial prod in the new direction, or it's unlikely to change. Quite, and deadlines are whooshing past as per usual. :-) > Unless we have other volunteers to lead the experiment, from this being > copied to the list? Background reading for people who don't know what this > is about: http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/TravelSponsorship Well, other volunteers are of course very welcome, but I'd suggest that we try to make the volunteers non-voting civil servants, preferably not in need of sponsorship, to avoid the natural tendency towards cliquish. Just to reiterate the idea I'm pushing: Select people that are, initially farthest from me (or from all the team members) in the web of trust, probably in small batches, as ding this one at a time will take too long. Ask the lucky victim to nominate some DD that they would trust to allocate debian funds for travel sponsorship (this combines an increase in trustworthiness, and an increase in network connectedness from the initial effectively random selection). Ask the nominee if they're willing, and not in need of sponsorship themselves. Anyone that says yes gets added to the list of GPG that new victims need to be far from, and we go round that loop until we have enough people -- if it turns out we need more, just restart the victim generator. Then, for the allocation of funds, just ask people to place people in order of preference as though they were solely and personally responsible for allocating the funds, possibly including a couple of markers, like "Should Fund above" and "Should not fund below" -- then we shove that lot into Condorcet and hope something vaguely useful pops out the other end. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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