Quoting Gard Spreemann (2021-03-23 16:18:10) > > Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> writes: > > > On 2021-03-22 16 h 43, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > >> Le vendredi, 19 mars 2021, 17.49:54 h CET Louis-Philippe Véronneau > >> a écrit : > >>> On 2021-03-19 08 h 02, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > >>>>> I've been telling a few people last month that I would really > >>>>> liked to have an Enterprise Edition Online MiniDebConf, > >>>>> unfortunately I don't have any time/energy to instigate that > >>>>> currently. > >>>> > >>>> Something for a Debian fellow that we could hire ;-) > >>> > >>> I for one would be less motivated to help with videoteam tasks if > >>> I knew someone was paid to organise a miniconf. > >> > >> Would your motivation also be affected if an individual was paid > >> only for a specific task that noone in the team found particularily > >> interesting to do? > >> > >> (I don't know much about how the videoteam works, so I don't know > >> if that's a good example, but let's see…) For example, what if > >> someone (paid) handled the storage and timely shipping of all the > >> hardware, as well as the actual ordering of new hardware, leaving > >> the (what I assume is the more interesting part) configuring, > >> design and conception of the system to volunteers? > > > > I'm not opposed to paid labor per-say. I think the previous examples > > of Debian paying TOs to do accounting is a good one. > > > > So to answer your question, I wouldn't be opposed if we contracted > > an enterprise to handle our gear for us. > > > > I don't think it's something particularly fun to do and I see that > > more as an administrative task, akin to accounting. > > > > "Organising a miniconf" isn't though. > > Is there a fundamental difference between paying someone to do > "non-fun administrative tasks" like accounting, and paying someone to > help out with orphaned/RFA'd packages (cf. Christian Kastner's recent > "How to motivate contributors to work on QA" question)? > > It seems to me, to some extent, that a package that is orphaned or > RFA'd is per definition "not fun enough" for a volunteer to work on. Accounting is a mandatory activity regardless of its fun-factor. Seems backwards to to me to pay for keeping packages alive that we have lost interest in. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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