On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 2:46 PM, John Byrne <john@bodkinprints.co.uk> wrote:

I agree with others that when a scholarship/grant is made involving non-trivial travel and living expenses such as air fares and hotels, the recipients should be identified, if only by username. Exceptions to this should be made very sparingly, and for very good reasons.

+1. Note that, as Jon said, "all scholarship recipients agree to produce a public report afterwards summarising the key things they have taken from the event". If it is of any length, sure such a report could only be notionally anonymous. As the writer of such a report last year, I'm not sure how I could have structured it to avoid making the authorship clear to those who cared. So in terms of after-the-fact privacy, we should be up front about that requirement, and if the default procedure isn't, we should institute steps to make it so.

Just my 2c,

Harry

Harry Burt (User:Jarry1250)