[ripe-list] New for RIPE 78: Diversity Tickets!

Hi Sander,

   On 29/01/2019 12:18, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi Amanda,
>
>> A diverse RIPE community is a strong RIPE community. For RIPE 78, we're now offering a way for you or your organisation to sponsor a "diversity ticket" to help bring someone from an underrepresented part of the community to the meeting.
>>
>> This is an easy and effective way to pay-it-forward and embrace the next generation of the RIPE community.
> Sounds like a good thing.
>
> However: "For each EUR 1,500 sponsored, a recipient of a diversity ticket will get one full-week RIPE Meeting ticket (value EUR 350) plus EUR 650 towards travel and accommodation". So, where does the other 33% of the money go?
Because we're starting off 'fresh' (with no funds available in the 
diversity tickets pool to start with), we wanted to use the extra money 
towards a pool to fund diversity tickets for future meetings as well as 
help towards other diversity initiatives like on-site childcare. I 
realise I left this out in the article, apologies for that.

To clarify, diversitytickets.org does not charge us to list our event.
>
> I feel it's wrong for the NCC to keep that money as sponsorship income instead of using it to make more diversity tickets available...
We agree :)
>
> This should be about sponsoring diversity, not sponsoring the NCC.
>
> Cheers,
> Sander

Warm regards,
Amanda