Re: Q to all candidates: spending money

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org>]

Hi,

Le 2015-03-13 19:06, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 06:44:45PM +0000, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > * Outreach. Every team complains (quite rightly!) about the lack of
> > people to do the work. Yet we seem to be rather poor at actively
> > recruiting people to come and do things for us. Outreachy is a great
> > initiative, and I would love to see a Debian Apprentice scheme 
> > (though
> > that's probably a bit of a stretch goal!)
>
> So, to be clear: would you authorize to use regular Debian funds to
> sponsor Debian participation into Outreachy (which costs ~6000 USD per
> intern), rather than going necessarily through dedicated fund raising
> campaigns at each edition?

I explicitly mention in my platform that we should sponsor internship
programs like Outreachy. I think that we can fund 2 slots per year. But
this is also a subject that I wanted to discuss more in details with 
the
"Outreach team" to which I would like to formally delegate the 
representation
and organization of our participation in such programs. This team 
should
have a word on this subject too.

Of course, as you duly noted, this doesn't prevent us from organizing
a fun raising campaign to sponsor extra slots.

Regards,

--
Mehdi