Handling sponsorship requests

[Sayak Banerjee]

Making an application should be quite feasible, and can be integrated with
sprints and identity as well.
I can use the same framework that sprints and solena (the new version of
Identity) use, and come up
with an application once all the requirements are in place.
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Regards,
Sayak Banerjee
SE (Retail), Infosys Ltd.
Webmaster, KDE Project
Official: sayak_banerjee at infosys.com, sayakb at kde.org
Personal: mail at sayakbanerjee.com
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On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Teo Mrnjavac <teo at kde.org> wrote:

> Hello KDE-www people,
>
> I'm writing with my GSoC org admin hat on about an idea that could be
> very good for KDE as a whole.
>
> Lydia and I have been discussing how KDE handles travel sponsorship
> for students, and generally how sponsorship applications are handled.
>
> Would it be possible to deploy some kind of solution for handling any
> and all kinds of reimbursement and sponsorship requests from members?
> Ideally we'd have an interface for contributors to apply, make their
> case and then later send in receipts. It might be also a good idea if
> an eV member could vouch for someone's application (think new GSoC/SoK
> students applying for Akademy sponsorship). From the eV board side I
> guess they could use an overview of requests, funds and maybe a way to
> rate them and sort a list by priority. Maybe such a software already
> exists and can be integrated into our existing infrastructure (i.e.
> identity.k.o and sprints.k.o). I guess the workload would greatly
> depend on this.
>
> Now, SoK applications close in less than a week. Could this be a SoK
> project for a student maybe? Is anybody available to mentor?
>
> As you might know, there have also been some discussions about the
> transparency of criteria. While I do not doubt that the board handles
> requests as diligently and fairly as possible, judging from the
> information I have it is a very manual, tedious and tough task. Having
> a software framework for handling these kind of requests could greatly
> improve the perception of transparency.
>
> I would appreciate if a board member could comment a bit on the need
> and requirements for this solution, and if someone from the KDE-www
> team could comment on the feasibility.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Teo
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