#140: Funding request for Valentín Basel ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- Reporter: valentinbasel | Owner: Type: Funding request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: FUDCon APAC 2011 | Keywords: ------------------------------+--------------------------------------------- - The cost of flight plus hotel would be around USD 1100 (travel) and USD 160 (hotel). A partial subsidy would help, USD 600 being the minimum amount of money that would help me attend.
- As Fedora Ambassador my field of work here in Argentina is oriented to the development of educational technology for children, specifically in the area of free software educational robotics. I'm currently working with Sugar Labs/OLPC (One Laptop Per Child), developing a low cost hardware to use on XO Netbooks. I'm also part of a Latin American Robotics Network with a software called "ICARO" of which I am the main developer [http ://sistema-icaro.blogspot.com]. I'm a Fedora Packager, handling the maintenance of the ICARO RPM Packages [http://rpmdev.proyectofedora.org/wiki/icaro]. I'm interested in getting to know people who are working on the same field as I am (children robotics under Fedora OS) with whom I'm in touch only though web forums and e-mails.
- I'd like to take to the conferences some of the ICARO PCBs (Printed Circuit Boards) to give to some of the people working on the same field in Panamá and Venezuela.
- My work schedule is flexible, so I can manage to get free time in order to attend the conferences. I could depart from Córdoba International Airport on May 25 at 4:16 AM, flight number 464, and return on May 29 from Tocumen Airport in Panamá City at 6:42 PM, flight number 463. Both on Copa Airlines (times and flight numbers yet to be confirmed).