[Ambassadors] Fwd: Funding for jbwillia to go to Flock

[Nick Bebout]

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From: Ben Williams <jbwillia(a)math.vt.edu&gt;
Date: Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: Funding for jbwillia to go to Flock
To: Nick Bebout <nick(a)bebout.net&gt;


if i cannot find a roommate total will be close to $1000


On 08/03/2015 03:10 PM, Nick Bebout wrote:

I have filed https://fedorahosted.org/famna/ticket/112 and would suggest we
vote there since the decision needs to be made pretty quickly.

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Nick Bebout <nick(a)bebout.net&gt; wrote:

>  I have been talking to jbwillia (Southern_Gentlman/kk4ewt) on IRC
> about
>  the Amateur Radio Test Session and the Ambassador sessions at Flock.  He is
>  not a speaker, so he did not get funding from the Flock budget to attend.
>
>  I would like to propose that we fund him attending Flock from the FAmNA
>  Budget for the following reasons:
>
>  1) we have to have 3 Amateur Extra class Volunteer Examiners (VE)'s to be
>  able to administer General and Extra class license exams, currently we have
>  2, plus one General class, which means we will only be able to administer
>  Technician class license exams at Flock, unless he or another Extra class
>  VE is able to come.  We have had several people interested in taking
>  General or Extra class exams.
>
>  2) I think Ben will be a valuable participant in the FAmNA Brainstorming
>  as well as the other Ambassador sessions at Flock
>
>  I just ran quotes and it looks like airline ticket will be about $520,
>  plus he would need to share a hotel room also.
>
>  nb
>