[TOS] Financial update: TOS budget from Red Hat

[John Britton]

I'd suggest a presence at the Mozilla Drumbeat Festival:
http://drumbeat.org/festival
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On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:

> Our community team at Red Hat has allocated $8k USD for TOS for the
> remainder of this fiscal year (which runs until March 2011), and I've
> been assigned to manage it; this budget is intended to be a pool
> available for initiatives the TOS community wants to do (in other words,
> propose things and help me spend money!) This is *not* meant in any way
> exclude other organizations from contributing and managing their own TOS
> budgets - in fact, I hope they will! We just figured we'd step up as an
> example since some funding requests were already coming in.
>
> LinuxCon requests were the first ones, and were retroactively handled
> from this pool; you can see them on the budget page and the accounting
> for that has been pretty much settled, though trip reports have yet to
> come in *coughCOUGHcough*. I aim to manage this budget transparently, so
> you'll see all funding proposals coming through this list, and
> everything's being tracked on this wiki page.
>
> http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Budget#Red_Hat
>
> This budget is *SEPARATE* from budget available for POSSE alumni
> classes, which I'll discuss later in a separate email. (Short version:
> POSSE alumni can request funding for their TOS classes to fly in a guest
> speaker, buy hardware, present at a conference, etc.)
>
> The first thing I've set aside budget for is infrastructure, if there
> are expenditures that we'd like Red Hat to sponsor (though with OSL's
> generous offer of hosting space, we may not need to use this budget at
> all).
>
> For the remaining $6444.84, I have a few strawman ideas based on
> thoughts that I've seen discussed on this list and also from a
> conversation with Steve Jacobs when I was in Rochester this June.
> Thoughts and feedback welcome!
>
> 1. An open BoF-style dinner at FIE (depending on attendance, perhaps
> $800 - inviting FIE attendees who aren't active in the TOS community but
> might be interested)
>
> 2. A presence at SIGCSE that resembles a mini-POSSE - basically, an
> intro-to-FOSS-participation session at an academic conference for
> academics who will already be *attending* that academic conference,
> perhaps $3k for swag, food, travel stipends for instructors
>
> 3. A presence at some major FOSS gathering that's being hosted at a
> university (I'm thinking about
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011) - basically, an
> intro-to-FOSS-participation track at a FOSS event for academics who are
> already *located near* that FOSS event, perhaps $3k for swag, food,
> travel stipends for instructors. I'd see this as an introduction dinner
> the night before the event for orientation, and then "tour guides" or
> "event buddies" during the actual event who'll walk alongside and
> annotate what's happening to the "visiting academics" as they go along.
>
> (Yes, I know these add up to slightly more than $6444.84.)
>
> Thoughts? Questions?
>
> --Mel
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