Re: [Debconf-team] DC12 Travel Bursaries ("Herb Team"): Ping? Discussion?
Philipp Hug dijo [Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:39:42PM +0200]:
> > ... The team gets the
> > responsibility to do it right, as a team; and the attendees crowd should trust
> > the team in return.
>
> completely agree. It makes more sense to let a dedicated team allocate
> the money than trying to figure out a rating system which will spit
> out a list of sponsored people.
> I also agree with fil that the 'mission' of the team should be: here
> is USD 25k, spend it as it were your money with the option to not
> spend the whole budget.
Right. Even though I sent the original proposal in this regard to open
the process to "just about everybody", I also favor doing this the
traditional way.
> > As a final point, I disagree with cate's proposal to forbid people requesting
> > travel sponsorship from joining the herb@ team: people asking for sponsorship
> > _are_ a (significant) part of the Debian community and I think we would loose
> > some precious diversity by taking them off them the team.
>
> I think, we should really forbid people who request sponsorship for
> themselves from being part of the team. Even if they're not allowed to
> rate their own application it still influences the other team members
> decisions.
This is prone to cause some controversy. In my particular case, I have
been part of this team several times while requesting travel
sponsorship, and have not felt it to cause unfairness.
Of course, deciding on this topic might be unnecessary if nobody
requesting sponsorship is to be part of the team anyway :)
> I'd help looking at the requested amounts and assist attendees to find
> cheaper options to come to LeCamp.
> But as I'm also a member of the local team, I'll only join the 'herb'
> team, if there are not enough other members. Or I could be a
> non-voting member and just assist with looking at requested amounts.
As far as I have read, both you and Giacomo are requesting to be
"non-voting members". I'd invite you to reconsider and be regular
members — Most of this team's work and responsability is ranking the
requests. And, as it has been said on this thread, the more people
ranking, the fairer it will be perceived as. Or that's what we (I?)
perceive ;-)
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