On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 09:45:46AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > I do not have trouble personally in spending the money on OPW but I > would also see a similarly fair use of the GSoC org money to keep on > sponsoring DebConf newbees and explicitly prefer women who apply for > the support. FWIW, this is no either/or situation. We can do both and in the past we have never needed GSoC org money to support the DebConf newbies initiative. The bottleneck to the viability of DebConf newbies have historically been 1) someone taking care of the initiative (announcing it ahead of time, reviewing applicants, etc.) and 2) coordination with regular DebConf applications (ideally, "newbies" could just be a category of regular applicants, that is somehow favored when doing travel sponsoring decisions). I should also point out that OPW does reserve part of intern budget to allow them to attend project conferences. So, if people want to have DebConf newbies happen again, do not worry about money, rather volunteer to help out the DebConf team to make it happen from an organization POV! Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . zack@upsilon.cc . . . . o . . . o . o Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club »
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