Hi all, Richard, I'll join Gaudenz in thanking you -again and again- for your hard, great quality work, and for explaining to us what do all those bits of money mean. > As the travel sponsoring team (herb team) would like to approve today > (2012-06-15) at 1900 utc in a meeting as many reasonable travel > sponsoring requests as possible, we would like to have a clear approval > of how much we are allowed to spend. Ok, so I'm barely in time to say my words :) > > Travel Sponsorship > > ================== > > > > My instinct is: > > > > - If you want to go low and conservative, 10 k$ for travel > > sponsorship. > > > > - If you want to go reasonable, 15 k$ is a fiscally responsible amount > > for travel sponsorship. > > > > - Travel team sort of implied 18k$ would fund everyone they thought > > should get money. > > That's not my understanding. For that we would need about 26k$ if we > reduce all requests above 500$ by 20% and about 32k$ if we want to grant > the full requested amount. That is to grant all the request of those > that got a rating above 18 on a scale of -100 to 100. Or about 2/3 of > the requests. IMHO that's the maximum we want to spend. Clearly there is > not that much money available at the moment. > > The 18k come from my understanding of an earlier mail thread that it's > OK to calculate with using all the dc11 surplus now, because this is just > a worst case scenario and we are quite sure that we will get more > money. At that time my interpretation of the current budget was that > this leaves us with 18k for travel sponsoring. I agree with Richard's assessment. Gaudenz, I think the key is what Richard says in the last bullet: "18k$ would fund everyone they thought should get money" — This "they thought" means –in my reading– everybody rated high enough to deserve the money. Regarding Gaudenz's note, has this 80%-of-the-requested-amount startegy been considered for this year? I think it will make it fairer. Later on, we can tell people we have got more money and grant the 100%, if possible for us. So, given the current outlook, I'd suggest sending mails telling people they got the sponsorship TODAY until we reach the US$15,000 mark, and –if things look bright– push it for the US$18,000 as we feel more confident. I believe (following his three points) 10K is too low, and we _can_ commit to the 15K. What do the others thing on this topic?
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