CFP: Offer the chance to withdraw a funding assistance request prior to selection

[johnf]

In the current process, submitters put in their (very unclear, bug 273777) requests for assistance. The programme committee then reviews the submissions and goes straight to the F2F meeting without prior evaluation of how many of the travel requests could possibly be funded (bug 273872).

If bug 273872 or something similar is implemented, we can work out our rough funding cutoff before doing the final submissions. That means zookeepr could offer submitters the chance to withdraw their request for funding: there may be some who can do so.

A sample withdrawal offer is attached.

Process:

1. someone goes down the list of talks in the desired order until 85% or so of the budget is reached.
2. at that point, all remaining speakers who have requested assistance are send an email like the attached
3. speakers who withdraw their request for funding can be considered for the conference, as can some few of those that didn't or couldn't

Launchpad Details: #LP273874 Mary Gardiner - 2008-09-24 17:51:11 +1000

[johnf]

I like it. If zookeepr can mail this automatically (no mailmerge required) that would be cool.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Joshua Hesketh - 2009-03-30 14:02:05 +1100

[johnf]

Cleaning up some old issues I own