[ripe-list] RIPE Working Group Chair Financial Support call for consensus by 15 June 2020
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Kurtis Lindqvist
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Thu Jun 4 17:04:04 CEST 2020
> On 4 Jun 2020, at 17:05, Gert Doering <gert at space.net> wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:52:25PM +0200, Jan Zorz - Go6 wrote: >> How can this be abused? Ok, you can create X committees and become a >> member just to get your travel covered - but... come on... > > "Can I become something official? please! I want free travelling!" > > If you do it "no strings attached" (like some conferences do for their > speakers) you can end up with very poor output (the bare minimum talk > to fill 30 minutes...). BTST. > > OTOH this proposal looks good to me. If someone is willing to dedicate > his time to the WG, and the WG honours that, and he cannot do this due > to financial constraints - having the NCC sponsor this, with the strings > attached "your affiliation is not visible anymore" is a good thing. > > (Which helps WG chairs in their internal corp discussions - "why do we > need to pay for your meetings? a WG chair should have this for free?" - > "yes, I can ask for it, but then $companyname would not be visible on > the introduction slides, is that OK for you?" - "what, no, please book > on the company account" :-) ) I would agree with Gert. I think the “barrier of entry” in the form of being selected WG co-chair probably is enough. - kurtis - -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/ripe-list/attachments/20200604/97d33ae9/attachment.sig>
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