Re: Contributor Summit planning

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 12:49:55AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Aug 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> 
> >  * Re the second half of "Not everyone can travel or can afford to do
> >    so" from Derrick, there's been travel sponsorships in past years.
> 
> Just to make sure that you understand: there are many more reasons than
> just travel costs involved. Just to name a few:
> 
> - visa issues.
> 
> - some people have to take care of family members and are not at liberty
>   to leave for even so much as half a day.
> 
> - conflicting schedules.
> 
> - mental health. As a friend of mine once put it: nobody is completely
>   "healthy", we all suffer, on a spectrum, from anxiety, trauma, and other
>   issues. The more inclusive we are, the more we can benefit from
>   everybody's talents and contributions.
> 
> Just saying. Money is sometimes not the solution.

Thanks for bringing this up. It's very easy to forget that not everybody
is in exactly the same situation.

It's actually one of the things I worry _most_ about having an in-person
meeting: that it ends up widening the gap between people whose employer
is sponsoring their work on Git, and people who have to carve their Git
time out of the rest of their busy lives.

Your virtual meeting idea is obviously meant to help with that. But
fundamentally I think allowing people to participate asynchronously is
the most important part, and we need to make sure there's some kind of
artifact summarizing any real-time meetings (for virtual stuff,
recordings or IRC logs are probably fine; for the in-person one, I was
very happy with the notes you took last year).

-Peff