Re: [Debconf-team] Recycling travel sponsorship money
Steve Langasek dijo [Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 03:47:53PM -0700]:
> 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.
Umh, although I like the idea, I'm not entirely convinced about
this. Yes, we could label any surplus we have this year as part of the
DC13 travel fund, but that will also mean a reversal in the priorities
we assign money - First to pay for the venue, second for the
hotel+food. Next year's conference will be more expesive than this
one, and we don't know yet how easy it will be to get sponsors. We are
optimist, yes, but we have to reach a quite high number before being
able to say we can sponsor travel. And I prefer being able to host a
DebConf with no travel sponsorship at all than having tens of people
buy plane tickets to a conference that will not be held.
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