On 9 August 2014 22:36, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 02/08/2014 Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> Hello, the ECSL (Central American Free Software Summit) send me an >> invitation to give a keynote at their event. >> > > Do you have any additional information about the event? Search engines led > me to http://ecsl2013.softwarelibre.ca/ so I tried manually changing it > to 2014 but it's clearly not a final website, like > http://ecsl2014.softwarelibre.ca/noticias/ contains only Lorem Ipsum and > broken blocks. > > It would also be very important to see: > 1) How the event would benefit the Apache Software Foundation > 2) How the event would benefit Apache OpenOffice > > > The organizers asked me if there is a way Apache can cover partially >> the travel or boarding expenses. >> We have talked about this before on the list, but it seems no straight >> process is defined at the moment so I am also unsure about what >> support is expected from the foundation. Or what is needed at the >> moment. >> > > We have a fund for OpenOffice events, normally reserved for events where > OpenOffice has a high visibility (such as: a day-long devroom at FOSDEM, > even though none of us ever received reimbursement for it) or where a > presence of OpenOffice can be useful (in this case, we normally finance > merchandising: this happened for OSCON recently... well, Kay did not ask > for reimbursement yet, but this would be reimbursed!). > It would be nice if at least the PMC group got knowledge about the size of this fund. I got asked the other day by the EVP and found it a bit embarrassing that I did not have a clue.
> > There is also the Apache-wide TAC http://www.apache.org/travel/ but > honestly I cannot recommend it in this case, it is a complex application > procedure and only for a few selected events, usually official Apache > events. With my TAC-PMC hat on, I can confirm that we do not have budget for non-essential apache events. The application procedure is only complex if you make it so, we ask you to fill in a form of 15 questions (like what do you want funding for) see tac-apply.apache.org, this is done for all events we fund. rgds jan I. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
