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On Monday 19 September 2005 20:34, Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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> We recently had a dev request funds to attend a conference. The |
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> details aren't particularly important, but I'm attaching my response |
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> and sending this message to -nfp for further comment. Many trustees |
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> have already responded in private, and I'm hoping that they'll forward |
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> their replies to this list as well. |
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> We need to have a real discussion about how we should spend our money, |
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> and my opinion is that such discussions should include all of the |
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> foundation, not just the trustees. |
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> |
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> Thoughts? |
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Besides the points allready brought up, I'd like to argue that I would |
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want to think twice before adopting a system that would favour one |
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developer over another for attending conferences. I'd prefer a system |
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where a certain percentage of everyone's fees is payed than a system |
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where only "leads" or "poor students" or some other category of devs get |
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refunded more. I think criteria should be objective and not work in such |
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a way that all developers are more equally able to attend. This of course |
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doesn't mean that one should pay for America based devs to attend fosdem |
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or for European devs to attend LWE (the us one) more than one would pay a |
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local dev. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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