Re: Q: Money spent on helping newbies to travel to debconf

On 23/03/26 00:31, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It appears that in the past, a lot of money has been spent to bring 
> outreachy people to Debconf (sometimes on the name of diversity). 
> Unfortunately, very often, these people are going away from the 
> project after a year, and it feels like a waste of Debian money.
This is a big concern for me too.
>
> Are you willing to continue supporting this? Don't you think it's more 
> important to help the ones that are dedicating a big chunk of their 
> lives, often daily, and for decades, to the Debian project? Isn't 
> in-person conversation with this type of big contributors more 
> important, so we have a chance to improve Debian?

We have separate diversity bursary and contributors bursary. Diversity 
bursary is a limited amount we spend to get new people to DebConf in the 
hope to get new contributors, but as you mentioned, it is not working 
well. I do not intend to stop this all-together, but I want to find 
better and efficient ways to use this budget.

Now, coming to contributor bursary, though we start off with an amount 
for contributor bursary, we might go thorough a couple of rounds of 
revisions based on the active contributors' bursary requests. Last few 
years DebConf bursary team has been doing a good job in ensuring that 
active contributors does not suffer from bursary budget shortage.

>
> Cheers,
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
>

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