[fudcon-planning] #219: Funding request for Andreas Thienemann
#219: Funding request for Andreas Thienemann
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Reporter: ixs | Owner: sundaram
Type: Funding request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: FUDCon India 2011 | Keywords:
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Hi,
during FrOSCon 2011 I did a small talk about Func and how it is being used
at Booking.com, a fast growing hotel website with a four digit number of
servers all running pure open source software. This was a very impromptu
talk as the original speaker had to decline on short notice.
The content however was very well received and people suggested, that I
should flesh this out a bit and maybe repeat this at the India FudCon.
As FrOSCon only was very recently, I apologize for the late sponsorship
request.
My aims for this FudCon would therefore be to
* Promote Func as it is indeed a wonderful tool for controlling more than
one machine
* Host a hacksession on Func.
There are some features (e.g. delegation) which are _very_ rough in Func.
We (at Booking) have a quickly hacked up version of func which actually
fixes many issues we see in a large scale environment with timeouts etc.
Polishing it and submitting/applying it upstream would definitly be worth
it.
Of there is some interest, I am also happy to host a session talking about
Fedora/CentOS/RHEL in a larger scale environment, what challenges/issues
we face, how we solved them, what kind of best practices we found etc.
* What do you need covered? Hotel 200USD, Flight 1300USD seems to be
what's available on the market. Departure airport would be Amsterdam. I
only did a quick search as Jared stressed I should get this ticket in
quickly. Will do a more exhaustive search later.
* If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful?
Yes, I'll take whatever I can and then see if it works out.
* What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? Please see above.
* Do you need a visa or other official processing before you can attend
FUDCon? Visa applications by European citizens seem to be processed in
less than a month.
If you have any further questions, please do not hestitate to ask me
either via mail or on IRC. The nick is ixs.
cheers,
andreas
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