On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 01:42:47PM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Ana Guerrero dijo [Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 07:24:23PM +0200]: > > * Forgetting about travel sponsorhip until March 1st > > Some people was commenting in that thread and in IRC about dropping directly > > the travel sponsorship for this year because it seems unlikely we'll have > > money. Others argued providing travel sponsorship is very important because > > if not some people won't never be able to go to debconf (I agree with this). > > What about not considering travel sponsorship in the budget and in the > > beginning of March, when we know better how much money we'll have we reconsider > > it again? It will still give people time to do travel arrangements if the > > decision is taken soon. > I agree with this (in fact, I might be one of those people talking > about this on IRC). Some people do depend on it, but this will not be > the first time we can only commit to provide travel sponsorship quite > late in the process, if at all — We can mention (again, explicitly, as > I said in my previous mail) that we will *try to* provide travel > sponsorship, but we cannot yet count on it. At the risk of repeating myself: we should not provide late travel sponsorship, *at all*. It's an inefficient use of funds. If we can't provide travel sponsorship in a timely manner, *don't* provide travel sponsorship - save the money for next year when it will do more good. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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