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

Hi,

> While the offer looks generous and quite anybody could advertise sponsorship,
> I do think that the neutrality that was expressed as being expected from NCC staff
> in recent discussions would also extend to the NCC's Board. To that extent I
> think the Board maybe overreached a bit - nobody had asked for this well to be drilled.

As a former WG chair I strongly disagree. The NCC is not overreaching at all here, they are responding to requests from the community. I have asked Hans Petter for support in the past, and as the result of that the NCC gave me a refund of the meeting fee. That at least made it a little bit easier to attend the meeting. I am very happy to see better support for WG chairs that need it, on request.

> But then, why focus on WG chairs?
> What about the program committee and what about the contributors and presenters?

More can be done in the future, but one step at a time.

I am happy with the current step!

Cheers,
Sander

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