Holger Levsen dijo [Fri, May 25, 2012 at 02:33:51PM +0200]: > > Therefore I propose to make an exception for these students so that they > > can still register for sponsored food and accomodation until 3th June. > > What do others think? > > I think thats fine, but we should handle it "silently", ie you tell the > students and we override penta for those gsoc students who will apply. Hi, Even though Ana's points are important and very true, I side with Holger here. It is important for us to have them in DebConf if it is possible. Now, again with Ana's points: Yes, DebConf has no money to sponsor anybody, so it would have to come from extraordinary sources. Also, July is quite close, so probably some of the 15 will not be available. I think a DebConf sponsorship should be offered to them as a *UNSURE* thing, asking them to say who would participate. *IF* seven of them say they can participate, we might be able to get the funding, as Ana suggests, partly from Google and partly from other Debian funds. If more were to request it, we could just tell them, "well, we told you it was unsure, and... sorry." As for what would they do, besides meeting tons of Debian people, I volunteer together with Christian to try to welcome them - I will be coordinating the tutorial track, thought originally for Central Americans, but quite probably adequate for them as well. Greetings,
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