On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 11:57:02AM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote:
> I'm also unkeen on anything that adds "VIPness" in general.
Sponsoring to be able to travel is IMHO not VIPness.
Providing ADs with early pick at hotel rooms, paid lunch, meeting
rooms etc. pp is IMHO a lot more "VIPness", but also IMHO good
value for the community overall to help ADs deal with their work load.
To me VIPness means waste of money. I don't see how anything
we're discussing would need to get up to that level.
> As I said though, I'd be fine if an AD needed to apply same as
> anyone else.
How are you going to rank applications ? Total number of work items
affected seems like an easy criteria, and that would put ADs on top,
so your idea is IMHO good (if there was travel money spread it well),
but would IMHO not change the outcome re. ADs.
> And lastly, once someone is an AD (as opposed to putting their
> name forward), it's entirely possible to go find someone who'd
> be willing to help fund your AD travel. (That happened in my
> case, about the middle of my 2nd term. As always, my funding
> sources de-jure were named in the bio on the IETF site.)
You probably do not want to accept a NomCom nomination to figure out
later you can't fund it.
Cheers
Toerless
