Hi Yes i can help
Juris 2013. gada 15. maijs 07:13 "Gunnar Wolf" <gw...@debian.org> rakstīja: > tl;dr: > > We are trying to assemble a large enough (but not too large?) team > to help us rate the travel sponsorship requests for DebConf13. Many > aspects are still open to debate, but most probably we will follow > the usual, past years' procedure. > > Are you interested in helping us? > > Longer version: > > A very important part of the DebConf organization is the rating of > travel sponsorship requests -- Always a hard problem to work out, that > involves people, involves social interaction. And although we have > come up with some alternative ideas, we seem to have consensus on > staying with the previous years' scheme: Have a team go through the > requests, rate them, and assign the money we have for that. This team, > the Team of the Thousand Names, is usually refered to within the > general DebConf organizing team as "Travel Sponsorship Team", "Travel > Bursaries Team" or simply "Herb". > > Obviously, the problem is much harder than just assigning the money to > the various _tasks_ we have to do, as this decision direcly affects > individuals. We have tried in the past to include in our team people > from various areas of Debian, from different geographic origins, even > with diffrent group of friends, in order to avoid "clique-based" > rating, or in any way biasing the results. > > If being part of this team interests you (regardless of whether you > are going to attend DebConf13 or not), please take a (casual?) look at > the thread starting here: > > http://lists.debconf.org/lurker/message/20130507.212452.a6fba4fa.en.html > > I have to thank/blame Gaudenz for giving the idea to make this a broad > call, to the whole of Debian, as it is Debian funds we will be using, > and it is Debian-related people (whether DDs, DMs, or unofficial > contributors) we will be assigning to. > > What do we need from those who volunteer? > > First, during the next *few* days, we want to finish debating how will > this process be, what should be weighed more and taken into account, > and finish delineating the dates. If I remember correctly, the > deadline for requesting this sponsorship is on Sunday 2013-05-19, and > we are aiming at producing the results in early June (June 1st, did I > hear?) > > Second, some time and patience. You will have to go through the amount > of people requesting travel sponsorship (I'd expect ~50-100), look at > their reasoning as to why they are requesting it, how reasonable their > requested amount sounds (yes, "reasonable" is too broad a word -- The > team will have to decide about it), and rate numerically. Usually, > once the requesters are rated, we define a cutoff value -- This time, > we have already quite a good budget reserved for the task, so it > *might* be a matter of saying, "we reached up to applicant #45". > > Third, an extra bit of time and patience. Once the list is > mostly-done, we usually have an IRC meeting to make sure the produced > list looks sane, and to find any hiccups before they explode. And if > they explode, believe me, it can be ugly. But they don't have to > explode at all, as we are nice and careful ;-) > > Fourth, this year we want to do something that has never been done > before: As requests for greater transparency have been made, we have > to find a way on how to report our work, without breaching the privacy > of the people who request this sponsorship (again, as this is a very > personal, social and money-related topic, it can be very touchy). So, > the work will not finish by June 1st, but somewhat later, quite > probably a bit after DebConf itself. > > Again: You don't have to be a DebConf long-time organizer nor > attendee. You don't have to be a many-years-long DD. We want the group > to be diverse, and that *surely* includes people that simply are not > in the same intra-Debian demographic group that most of us are. > > So, if you want to be a part of the team, please mail > lists.debconf.org (and to make it easier to stay in the right thread, > please reference Message-ID <20130507213815.ga56...@gwolf.org>) > letting us know. > > We are aiming at enlarging the group. 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