Re: BSP Reimbursements
On 2019-10-02 at 10:43:37 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> TL;DR: Do we want BSP organizers to take on the responsibility of
> batching together travel reimbursement requests.
> [...]
> Asking BSP organizers to help with this is great from the DPL side.
> The only concern is if it pushes the effort involved in organizing a
> BSP up too much so people don't want to do it.
I've organized a low-effort event (Snow Camp) that has been considered
similar to a BSP for travel refund reasons.
The idea behind that kind of event is to keep organization tasks to a
minimum: e.g. registration is mostly delegated to the hostel / hotel the
event happens in, so that it is feasible to have a tiny organizing team
of one-two people.
If I had to also take care of travel reimbursement requests I wouldn't
do it: it's something that I would need to learn anew every year, and
then my brain would consider it a high stressful task with hints of
judging people, and that's not something I'm ready to volunteer to.
On the other hand, afaik the Sun Camp didn't have these reimbursements,
and for the first Snow Camp they were only available / announced late,
when most people had already registered, so I think that the event can
happen anyway even without them.
I'm also not sure that this kind of event is still considered a good
idea from a Debian-wide perspective, so maybe they wouldn't qualify
anymore anyway, and this is all moot.
--
Elena ``of Valhalla''
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