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Re: [Debconf-team] call for bursaries team volunteers



I'm willing to serve on the bursaries team again this year. I don't plan
to apply for travel sponsorship. I have been on the team since DC12.

Gaudenz

David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> 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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