El dg 31 de 03 de 2013 a les 18:20 -0600, en/na Moray Allan va escriure: > On 2013-03-31 10:41, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > Regarding Debian finances, I did verify that we can afford this > > before > > proposing it. It is my responsibility as DPL to ultimately approve > > using > > those money for OPW and, as mentioned already, it is my judgement > > that > > it would be totally worth to do so; this year as an experiment with > > budget for 1 intern, in the future maybe more (but that would be up > > to > > the next DPL to decide). I've no magic ball but I do feel that > > general > > project feeling on this is that it is an acceptable usage of money > > I'm slightly surprised you think the project feels that way -- > consensus in the recent debian-vote discussions seemed to be rather > against using Debian money to pay interns. > > e.g. from Lucas > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00084.html > > > On using Debian's money: > > My line, which is quite consensual I think, is that Debian money can > > be > > used to support Debian development (hardware infrastructure, travel > > reimbursement, ...) but not to pay contributors. > > > > If we were to run our own internship program, I would be hard to > > convince to use Debian money for stipends. A separate fundraising > > campaign specifically for stipends would be better IMHO. > > And I would probably disagree quite strongly if the program allowed > > DDs > > to receive stipends. > > or from myself > https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2013/03/msg00040.html These comments make me think that maybe we're going too quickly and we need more consensus on this. I don't know if participating in the program has sense if it has no continuity in the future. A solution could be that an external organization sponsors the stipend. But, I'm afraid we're not in time for this round. On the other hand, we could wait until the next round to have a more wide consensus (and more mentors, more volunteers and to be able to offer more projects). I'm quite stuck right now, I don't like to do things without consensus. Could I have more opinions from this list before I go ahead (or not)? Cheers.
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