Basically, organisers spend more than half of their time on general communications and logistics to support participants get to work.
And earmarking stipends to particular areas of work seems rather burdensome administratively, though I wouldn’t be entirely against it if it means we can cover more people’s stipends.
Overall, I think we tended not to allow differentiated fundraising before because it can promote internal conflicts, rather than having people come together to make the camp great.
We ended up having a private exchange about it.
Basically, organisers spend more than half of their time on general communications and logistics to support participants get to work.
And earmarking stipends to particular areas of work seems rather burdensome administratively, though I wouldn’t be entirely against it if it means we can cover more people’s stipends.
Overall, I think we tended not to allow differentiated fundraising before because it can promote internal conflicts, rather than having people come together to make the camp great.