Re: [Debconf-team] DC15 - Sprints during DebCamp (and DebConf)

[Tiago Bortoletto Vaz <tiago@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 07:15:27PM +0100, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > The point is: what about those who have a non-sprint plan?
> > Will they be considered by boursaries team?
> 
> The bursaries team will need to decide what they will do, and nothing
> in my mail claimed otherwise.
> 
> We want to strongly encourage people to participate in the sprints and
> see how that goes.
> 
> The goal of the sprints is to help people work in teams, both for
> those that want people to work with them and for those that want to
> help but are unsure how. The goal is not to magically solve the
> problem that some people don't work during DebCamp (those people could
> sign up for a sprint and then don't do anything anyway).
> 
> My mail INTENTIONALLY doesn't say that participating in a sprint is a
> requirement for DebCamp because this was criticized in the original
> proposal. It says that bursaries should take into account sprint
> participation, not the other way round.

Fine then.

Can we have a word from bursaries team on this?

Thanks,

-- 
tiago