On 11/03/15 at 14:48 +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > 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? Maybe, but is that a discussion that we need to have now, or can we have it after the bursaries team will have looked at applications? Lucas
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