On 4 Jun 2020, at 17:05, Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:52:25PM +0200, Jan Zorz - Go6 wrote:
How can this be abused? Ok, you can create X committees and become a member just to get your travel covered - but... come on...
"Can I become something official? please! I want free travelling!"
If you do it "no strings attached" (like some conferences do for their speakers) you can end up with very poor output (the bare minimum talk to fill 30 minutes...). BTST.
OTOH this proposal looks good to me. If someone is willing to dedicate his time to the WG, and the WG honours that, and he cannot do this due to financial constraints - having the NCC sponsor this, with the strings attached "your affiliation is not visible anymore" is a good thing.
(Which helps WG chairs in their internal corp discussions - "why do we need to pay for your meetings? a WG chair should have this for free?" - "yes, I can ask for it, but then $companyname would not be visible on the introduction slides, is that OK for you?" - "what, no, please book on the company account" :-) )
I would agree with Gert. I think the “barrier of entry” in the form of being selected WG co-chair probably is enough. - kurtis -