Hi Lars, On 21/03/14 at 16:02 +0000, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:44:07PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > > At the moment, in just SPI, we have > 100k USD awaiting being spent. > > As an indication, that’s enough for a DebConf without any sponsors! > > Our donations should be spent. Be that better porter boxes, or a > > better backup service, or simply making sure our core machines are > > replaced regularly. > > Lucas and Neil, what are your opinions on spending some of that money > on frequent springs, e.g., for bug fixing? I'm all for useful developers meetings (sprints, BSPs, mini-debconfs). I don't think I have turned down any funding request for such an event during my term. Now, of course, each funding request need to be evaluated with the following test: "would our donors agree that this is good use of their donations?". Flying people around the world to attend one-day BSPs might not be such a good use of Debian funds. :) Generally, my impression is that many Debian contributors do not fancy travelling that much, or are just too busy, and thus don't really like to attend too many such events. Lucas
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