Re: [More-than-a-BSP] Registration requests: summary & next …

Hi,

intrigeri:
> Hi,
>
> so, the deadline for registrations is in a few hours.
>
> Solveig & I were supposed to handle sponsorship requests, so I did
> some stats. I'm including some of them below, along with some comments
> and things we might want to discuss.

Neat, thanks!

> people
> ======
>
> 54 requests + 2 children (they're people too):
>
> * ~50 people on Saturday
> * ~50 people on Sunday

One more since you sent this :)

> ⇒ I'm told the room gets noisy with 20-30 people, but I find it hard
> to say "no, you can't come" to anyone, so I guess we'll be packed and
> will deal with the noise.
>
> We can discuss this on Sunday during our meeting. We have relatively
> good data that we can use if we want to decide who can come. And if
> we're fine with 50 people we can just say "yes" to everyone.

I'd rather say "yes" to everyone too.

> under represented
> =================
>
> 14 people claimed they were part of a social group that's currently
> under-represented in Debian; that's 25% of registration requests.
> It's not much, and at the same time it's a lot compared to other
> Debian events. We could raise this number by refusing some people,
> based on the criteria we've decided.
>
> I bet that quite a few other people are actually part of such a social
> group, but didn't know, didn't dare, or didn't want to claim it.

Probably.

I was advised that it would be great to have the possibility to provide
them with some space/time during the week-end.

> travel sponsorship
> ==================

[...]

> We even have a little bit of margin that we can use for other expenses
> (e.g. food) if needed.

Great!

> accommodation
> =============
>
> Total:
>
> * Friday night: 6
> * Saturday night: 7
> * Sunday night: 5
>
> spriver & jvoisin: it's now time to match requests with offers!
> See summary.mdwn and the data/ directory in the private Git repo, that
> should be enough for you to identify who needs accommodation, and
> when. Note that some of these attendees are already considering
> renting a flat themselves (ask me if you need to know who, in case you
> missed the corresponding email thread today), so you might want to
> coordinate with them.

Thanks for doing that!

Cheers,