also sprach Lucas Nussbaum <leader@debian.org> [2015-03-11 13:59 +0100]:
> > There is a position in the budget (backed travel sponsorship),
> > which is currently 0. Feel free to pour any Debian funds into
> > it. Just let me know! ;)
[…]
> Put differently, if Debian funding is needed, I might prefer to
> direct it first to additional travel sponsorship, rather than to
> social stuff. Would that work for you?
Isn't that precisely what I said?
While some "entertainment" is truly optional, day trip and conf
dinner are not. They've become a tradition, and they are also
important events for each year's team to organise and be proud of.
I really wouldn't like it very much to unilaterally sponsor more and
more people while keeping the rest of the conference on
a shoestring. We do have people paying for themselves, and we should
not forget about them.
So let's just consider the following proposal:
DC14 received 36k USD from Debian (and returned it). How about you
make 30k EUR available for DC15, which we allocate exclusively for
travel sponsorship and reduce some of the already allocated funds to
other items in the (worst-case) budget, e.g. conf dinner and day
trip? I'd say 15k, which would leave us with 45k EUR travel
sponsorship, which is *more* than we had in the past years.
And if we get more funds from sponsors (which I am assuming/hoping),
then those 30k can get paid back after the conference.
Would this be something to consider?
Cheers,
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