Q: Money spent on helping newbies to travel to debconf

From	Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.vote
Subject	Q: Money spent on helping newbies to travel to debconf
Date	2026-03-23 00:40 +0100
Message-ID	<MBAyJ-9ync-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	Debian

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Hi,

It appears that in the past, a lot of money has been spent to bring 
outreachy people to Debconf (sometimes on the name of diversity). 
Unfortunately, very often, these people are going away from the project 
after a year, and it feels like a waste of Debian money.

Are you willing to continue supporting this? Don't you think it's more 
important to help the ones that are dedicating a big chunk of their 
lives, often daily, and for decades, to the Debian project? Isn't 
in-person conversation with this type of big contributors more 
important, so we have a chance to improve Debian?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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Q: Money spent on helping newbies to travel to debconf Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2026-03-23 00:40 +0100
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