[Ambassadors] Travel Sponsorships for Flock in EMEA

[Gabriele Trombini (mailga)]

In data venerdì 6 giugno 2014 16:31:23, Jiri Eischmann ha scritto:
> 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
> 
Hi guys,

I'm glad to read this mail from Jiri, in order to clear up what Flock is.
I admit I don't understand why Flock is an event reserved to speakers 
when FUDCON was a contributors event.

I know Flock is a premium event and the sponsorship can't be 
managed by EMEA region, that's correct, but I can't agree with the 
target.

In that way the attendees are only speakers and they have many ways 
to share ideas by all the channels in use (e.g. IRC, ML ecc.).

Yes, we could follow discussions and topics as well, but sometimes 
people are not able to follow ML that have dozen of posts through 
several days.

Flock (and before FUDCON) is a great way to keep people updated 
about decisions taken by the Project itself and cutting sponsorship to 
the people would like attend means the Project will be self-referenced.

Is that the way we follow?

I don't like spend my holidays in Prague (or everywhere else), but I'd 
like spend some days for keeping me updated about future 
developments of the Project.

Greetings. 

Gabriele