Hello, I'm one of this year's GSoC admins for Debian, and I'd like to ask whether it would be possible to "save" some sponsored accomodation and food slots for GSoC students. I'm asking for this "in advance" because we don't know the students that are going to be picked yet, and therefore I don't think we should have them go through the DebConf registration process just yet. The accepted students will be announced on May 27th at 19:00 UTC. The idea is not to have all the accepted students come to DebConf, but to allow those students whose mentors intend to be there to come and allow for valuable face-to-face time. There are 19 distinct projects for which students have applied, so that's the max number of students we're going to get. Seeing the geographical distribution of mentors and students, I'll go out on a limb and say that we shouldn't need more than 5 sponsored accomodation/food slots. I'm CC:'ing Lucas to make sure that we will be able to get the students' travel sponsored another way: we should be able to ask Google for part of it (in the past, they have sponsored the trip for 2-3 students), topping it off using the money Google gives to Debian for successful GSoC projects if we need to do so. Therefore we shouldn't need the DebConf team's help for that. Thanks in advance for considering, -- Nicolas Dandrimont linux: the choice of a GNU generation (ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93)
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