[TOS] Public request for funds

Sebastian Dziallas sebastian at when.com
Fri Jun 4 19:25:45 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mel Chua <mel at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 05/26/2010 01:45 PM, Mel Chua wrote:
>>> My situation:  I speak at several conferences each year, and I have two
>>> talks confirmed at LinuxCon aside from the mini-summit.  My company
>>> usually pays travel expenses for my conference attendance.  However, we
>>> were just acquired by a different company a few months ago.  Financial
>>> issues are still shaking out, and my travel budget has disappeared
>>> completely.  I would not expect a TOS organization to pay my entire
>>> travel agenda to LinuxCon, but would be very pleased if I could get the
>>> plane fare (~$500) and possibly one hotel night (~$180) covered.
>>
>> I'll check with my team's budget and see if we can find $680 somewhere
>> in the "discretionary education-related stuff" bucket or otherwise. Will
>> keep the list posted. This seems like a great example of the sort of
>> thing that should be funded anyhow.
>
> Hey, Jeff - Red Hat has set aside some budget for TOS-related stuff, and
> this sounds like a good use of this budget to us. :) If you'll write a
> trip report to Planet TOS, Red Hat will gladly cover your plane flight
> and one night of hotel.

I'd like to put my hat in the ring here, too. I'm still a student and
co-organizing the summit; so any help with travel funding would be
really appreciated (I can certainly write up a proposal and trip
report, too).

--Sebastian

> If this sounds agreeable, find me on IRC and we'll get the details taken
> care of (mostly "I should put your plane ticket on my Red Hat credit
> card").
>
> So I suppose this works as an informal budget request protocol, and we
> can try to figure out ways to make it more useful/transparent. :)
>
> --Mel



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