[ripe-list] RIPE Working Group Chair Financial Support call for consensus by 15 June 2020

> On 4 Jun 2020, at 15:44, Jaap Akkerhuis <jaap at NLnetLabs.nl> wrote:
> 
>> Full disclosure: Axel and Rob kindly waived the meeting fee for
>> me when my business was struggling ~10 years ago. My airmiles paid
>> for travel and accommodation.
> 
> You forgot to mention that that was while you were a WG-chair.

True. Though I thought everyone would have known I was a WG chair at that time. It wasn’t a freebie just to hang out at the meeting. No matter.

> I always thought that the ability of the RIPE chair to sponsor people
> to the meetings included the WG-chairs so I'm wondering a bit why
> they should be mentioned separately. 

That’s true. Though in the past, the RIPE Chairman could ask for the meeting fee to be waived whenever someone who lacked funding was making a significant contribution to the meeting. This didn’t extend to travel and accommodation. IIUC that element was added when the RIPE Fellowship thing (aimed at research students?) started.