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

On 04/06/2020 16:05, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:52:25PM +0200, Jan Zorz - Go6 wrote:
>> How can this be abused? Ok, you can create X committees and become a
>> member just to get your travel covered - but... come on...
> 
> "Can I become something official?  please!  I want free travelling!"
> 
> If you do it "no strings attached" (like some conferences do for their
> speakers) you can end up with very poor output (the bare minimum talk
> to fill 30 minutes...).  BTST.
> 
> OTOH this proposal looks good to me.  If someone is willing to dedicate
> his time to the WG, and the WG honours that, and he cannot do this due
> to financial constraints - having the NCC sponsor this, with the strings
> attached "your affiliation is not visible anymore" is a good thing.

Of course, in this case affiliation on the badge is not $company, but 
something related to RIPE work.

Cheers, Jan

> 
> (Which helps WG chairs in their internal corp discussions - "why do we
> need to pay for your meetings?  a WG chair should have this for free?" -
> "yes, I can ask for it, but then $companyname would not be visible on
> the introduction slides, is that OK for you?" - "what, no, please book
> on the company account" :-) )
> 
> gert
>