[Ambassadors] Travel Sponsorships for Flock in EMEA

Constantin DRABO panda.constantin at gmail.com
Fri Jun 6 14:50:19 UTC 2014


Hello Jiri,
I would like to buy my  travel ticket. Is it possible, for Fedora, to
sponsor the  hotel for me ?

pandaconstantin


2014-06-06 22:31 UTC+08:00, Jiri Eischmann <eischmann at redhat.com>:
> Hi,
> I've received several requests for travel subsidies to go to Flock from
> EMEA ambassadors.
>
> Let me start a discussion about it:
>
> Our regional budget is not intended to sponsor people to attend premium
> events. Those events have their own separate budget and we don't have
> any money allocated to this purpose in our budget. On the other hand, we
> have some reserves in the budget and we could sponsor several
> contributors (it's definitely not limited to ambassadors) if we decided
> so.
> But if we decide to do such a thing I'm proposing to stick with our
> principals: the applicant needs to have a very strong reason to go to
> Flock. Every time we sponsor someone to go to an event it's not because
> they want to attend the conference, but because they have a talk, run a
> workshop, staff a booth, meet team members to get things done. Because
> all speakers are covered by the Flock budget, what is left is
> participating in "get things done" sessions and organization (if someone
> is actively involved in the Flock organization and want to help on site,
> too).
> As much as I'd love to see every Fedora contributor at Flock we have to
> reflect the reality that our resources are limited. So this sponsorship
> should be an exceptional thing.
>
> I'd love to hear your opinions. We will certainly discuss it at the next
> regional meeting on Wed.
>
> Jiri
>
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