[foss4g2014] On Travel Grants/Scholarships

[Darrell Fuhriman]

Ultimately, it’s a subjective decision.

I think the only objective criteria we can (should?) use would be the answer the question “did you submit a presentation?” That is, if we agree that that’s a good criteria to use. I don’t have a strong opinion on the matter and can see arguments either way.
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 I doubt we’ll have more money than demand, so we should definitely plan to deal with that. Maybe we’ll be super fortunate.

d.



On Mar 27, 2014, at 17:13, Kristin Bott <bottk at reed.edu> wrote:

> Excellent question! (Angie, thoughts/preferences?)
> 
> If I were in charge of the world, I might do something like
> -list a deadline on the application
> -have part of the application be a "explain why you need to attend" (can look at recent SOTM scholarship call for this, perhaps)
> -put a call out to y'all to find out who else wants to identify qualified candidates
> -set a deadline for fundraising so we know how much $ we're playing with, and ... that's a start. 
> 
> (insert some sort of proto-committee convening here, candidate ranking, etc. If we have enough funding, all needs are met. If not, we make decisions.)
> 
> ...the above = skeletal ideas sketched at the end of a long day. Let the idea-kicking continue! Others? Thoughts?