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Re: [Debconf-team] Recycling travel sponsorship money



Hi, 

On Sat Jun 23, 2012 at 15:47:53 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 07:17:57PM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> > We had one person offered sponsorship explicitly cancel, and another may
> > have their company cover their costs.  So we have $1400 definitely and
> > another $600 probably left from the $18000 travel budget.  It is
> > obviously pretty late, but it _might_ make a difference as to whether
> > somebody can attend debconf. Should we spend this money on travel
> > sponsorships, or return it to the general budget?
> 
> Neither.  The money should be carried over into a travel sponsorship budget
> for next DebConf, so that the money can be applied *efficiently* to travel
> sponsorship instead of at the last minute when it doesn't do nearly as much
> good.
> 
> As people have been asking for DebConf to do for several years now.

+1

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