[fudcon-planning] #173: Funding request for Eugene Teo

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#173: Funding request for Eugene Teo
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 Reporter:  eteo              |       Owner:                   
     Type:  Funding request   |      Status:  new              
 Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:                   
Component:  FUDCon APAC 2011  |    Keywords:  FUDCon India 2011
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 Hi,

 I was advised to file a ticket for my funding ticket.

 I am unable to find the "FUDCon India 2011" component, so I picked the
 closest option I can find.

 * What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD: hotel $X,
 travel $Y)

 Air travel: ~USD$700 from Singapore to Mumbai (two way).
 Other travel: from Mumbai to Pune, and back, not sure yet.
 Hotel/lodging: Still finding, not sure yet

 Will need help from the organisers.

 * If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful?
 (Yes/No)

 No.

 * What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as
 possible, since this is the most important factor in granting requests.)

 1) I would like to give two presentations.
         a) On open source security:- How the Red Hat Security Response
 Team deals with security issues affecting Fedora and upstream open source
 projects. Fedora users will have a better awareness and appreciation of
 how we deal security issues in the upstream, and learn how they can source
 for information they need to ensure they have installed updated packages
 that addressed security issues.
         b) on SystemTap:- Explain what SystemTap is, given an overview of
 SystemTap and the scripting language, provide a technology update, and
 showcase interesting kernel/user-space scripts.

 2) Talk to people at FUDCon, find out how we can improve our involvement
 in the Fedora security team, gather feedback for the perftools team, etc.

 3) Attend the FUDCon, interact with contributors and colleagues in Pune I
 have worked with for the past 5+ years but had not have the opportunity to
 meet them in real life.

 4) Meet my ex-Fedora GSoC mentee. I supervised a GSoC project under the
 Fedora Project organisation. She works for us now, but I haven't had the
 chance to meet her in real life, too :)

 * Do you need a visa or other official processing before you can attend
 FUDCon?  If so, approximately how long does that processing take?

 Yes. According to this website, http://www.india-visa.com/singapore-
 info.htm#visa-fees, it's about USD$17 for a transit visa (Upto 15 days
 single/double entry). The High Commission requires one working day to
 process my VISA application.

  * Include any additional, relevant information.

 I need to return on Nov 5th night or Nov 6th morning.

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