We need volunteers to form the DebConf 15 bursaries team. This team has two related duties - to vet applications for accomodation and food sponsorship, and - to rank applicants for travel sponsorship. The latter is usually the hard part. We are in the process of writing down some guidelines for the process, which hopefully will make things a bit easier for the team, and more importantly more transparent for the applicants. To reduce the appearance of conflict of interest, we would like to draw the bursaries team from Debian contributors not applying for travel sponsorship this year. With that caveat, we'd like to have as diverse as possible a group of Debian contributors on the team. In particular, the following people are encouraged to volunteer (either publicly on the list or privately by email to me) - people who have previously served on the DebConf bursaries team - people who have previously received travel sponsorship to attend DebConf - people contributing to Debian in ways other than packaging - people who identify themselves as part of some minority within Debian We're looking for between 6 and 12 members of the team for this year. Once we have a list of volunteers, the DebConf Participant Assistance Team [1] will select a group that balances various kinds of diversity with experience. [1]: https://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/Teams#Participant_assistance_team
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