Sponsoring event attendees

[mario juliano grande balletta]

Thx!  How can I kick in for the person traveling to EMEA?  I would
like make a contribution ASAP!

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:47 PM, inode0 <inode0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, mario juliano grande balletta
> <mario.balletta at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Drawing on experience from other areas of my background, I would say
>> if a project member is scheduled to deliver a presentation, teaching a
>> class, fulfilling a specific duty, like camera work, etc
>>
>> Then sponsoring an individual needing some assistance to attend an
>> event so they can fulfill their obligations is useful to fedora and
>> the community.  Now, granted I am not saying all requests for
>> assistance must meet the criteria above, but, isn't that why the
>> videos are posted to youtube?
>
> Hey Mario,
>
> Getting the perspective on things from folks with different
> backgrounds is always helpful and I'm happy to hear from you in
> particular.
>
> What you have described here is pretty much what we try to do. Help
> people get places where they bring value to the project and its
> mission when they need some help. There are lots of trade-offs and a
> fair amount of subjectivity involved in that process and we agree
> there always will be. My main concern about this "process" is maybe
> characterized as community relations. We all just want the Fedora
> community to have confidence in it. Well, we want it to also
> accomplish its goals while being good stewards of Fedora's resources
> too!
>
>> Businesses try to reduce travel overhead by using video conferencing
>> and posting video sessions.  Maria and her team are working on similar
>> technology that will be useful in making more of that available,
>> besides youtube.
>
> Our community almost entirely functions and communicates remotely.
> Pretty much the nature of our project. But there are times when
> getting people in one place to focus on particular tasks is important
> enough to our mission that we can help facilitate some face to face
> work opportunities. If you look at our past Fedora Activity Days
> (FADs) you'll see a number of them were devoted to improving tools for
> remote collaboration.
>
>> So, I feel the funds for travel assistance should be used for actual
>> specific fedora business needs.  If individuals who are challenged
>> cannot arrange travel to a fedora event, then perhaps reaching out to
>> the group might help, voluntary contributions, donations, etc
>
> Excellent suggestions. There is a voluntary collection going on now to
> help a contributor get from LATAM to EMEA for an important event. I
> think there is an important difference here between a business and the
> Fedora community though. In a business the boss can just make this
> decision. We don't have a boss to decide which ambassadors and other
> contributors can be funded to represent Fedora at SELF or FOSDEM. So
> our community, having resources entrusted to it to promote Fedora at
> such events must find agreeable ways to make those decisions
> ourselves.
>
>> Sharing rides, sharing travel points from airline or hotel programs.
>> There are alternative methods, we have to be creative and think
>> outside the box.  I don't think a written policy with conditions can
>> be drafted to cover every situation, so common sense, the global
>> picture, fedora objectives, individual status all need to be factored
>> in when evaluating travel requests.
>
> Yeah, I agree with everything there.
>
>> I apologize if any of that seems negative or offensive, just trying to
>> take a sterile clinical approach.  :-)
>
> Thanks Mario.
>
> John
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