Re: Join in the DC19 bursaries team
Hi Nicolas,
Thanks for the detailed insights!
I am also interested in joining the Bursaries team.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 11:28 PM Adriana Cássia <adriana.org@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> > * Adriana Cássia <adriana.org@gmail.com> [2018-08-30 16:30:52 -0300]:
> > > [...]
> > > I would like to know what is required to join in the bursaries team.
> >
> > Thanks for your interest!
> >
> > I will be answering to the debconf-team list, as this is all things that
> > should generally be known about the bursaries team.
> >
> > I'm really happy to have someone from the local team get involved in the
> > bursaries process :-)
> >
> > In my opinion, the main requirement to enter the team is a combination of
> > discretion and trustworthiness: the bursaries team handles the most sensitive
> > data that attendees fill in during their registration: applications often
> > contain personal details that must be shared with the absolute fewest people
> > possible. Attendees entrust us with that information and we need to take the
> > utmost care of it.
> >
> > Of course the main part of the work involves looking at and evaluating people's
> > applications. To that end, members of the bursaries team need an overall
> > understanding of the organization of Debian, and the Free Software community.
> > Basically that means being able to look up and understand the record of
> > contributions of an individual in Debian and/or in the wider Free Software
> > community, and evaluating/assessing the relevance of that record within the
> > context of participation in the Debian Conference.
> >
> > This also involves being able to judge, at least superficially, the work plan
> > for DebCamp and DebConf that people may submit depending on how we design the
> > process this year.
> >
> > Finally, we do allow people who are on the team to apply for a bursary (all
> > members of the team are, after all, also contributors, and on that basis their
> > application should be considered), and we expect referees to recuse themselves
> > if they feel they would be unfair (either way) while evaluating someone's
> > application. When this happens, the bursaries admins can shuffle around some
> > evaluations to keep the workload even.
> >
> > The meat of the process happens between the end of applications (currently set
> > to 31 March) and the posting of the results (currently set to 30 April). You
> > need to be able to set aside some time during this period, probably around
> > 20 hours over the month, depending on the number of applicants.
> >
> > We are still pondering having a budget for "essential volunteers" that would be
> > eligible to shortcut the process and just get their bursary granted early, but
> > that's still an idea that's floating around and we'll see if we implement it.
> >
> > On to actual access, there's three tools we use for the process:
> > - the bursaries@debconf.org alias, where we field queries around the process
> > from attendees, and where we hold our internal discussions on general issues
> > and on more specific attendee cases.
> > - the website ("wafer") where attendees send their applications (during the
> > registration process), and where members of the bursaries team ("referees")
> > send their evaluations.
> > - the private git repository, where the ranking and data processing scripts
> > live. Those repos contain CSV files with the full data dump and are
> > therefore sensitive/restricted.
> >
> > We have two access levels:
> > - referees only get access to the data for attendees they've been assigned,
> > and to the git repositories if they want to look the scripts over and ensure
> > the bursary admins are trustworthy.
> > - administrators get access to all data for all applicants, and get write
> > access to everything (which, specifically, lets them enter late applications
> > as well as enter the results of the aforementioned scripts)
> >
> > I hope this is mostly clear!
>
> Thanks a lot for the information. May I join in the bursaries team?
>
>
> It's very likely that during the process I will ask some "newbie
> questions", but I will try to do my best.
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
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> Adriana C. da Costa
> http://www.mulheres.eti.br
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Regards,
Pranav Jain
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