On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 09:28 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Davyd Madeley wrote: > > It seems to me that sponsorship to this event should really be > > handled by linux.conf.au, but I was wondering if the Foundation saw > > any place for itself here. > > I tend to agree with you. We have helped bring people to conferences in > the past, and are doing so at the moment for a Chilean conference, but > in that case, it's paying for the flights of someone who will be > presenting, which (if I understand correctly) isn't the case here.
I think she is interested in presenting. That was the impression I got at least. > I think the best thing is to let linux.conf.au see if they can help out. > If you feel that the presence of this person will dramatically improve > the gnome.conf.au experience, then write a short proposal (that is, > include the name of the person, why they rock, and how much the ticket > will cost) to board@ and we'll consider it. Ok. I'll wait until Jeff is back in the world. He has more of an idea of what's happening on both sides of the coin. > > While we're on the topic of money. Last year we put together > > t-shirts, which were highly successful and I'm hoping to do the same > > again. I was thinking that it might be nice to give each person who > > presents a complementry t-shirt. Unfortunately, to do this requires > > funding. Does the Board think this is a good idea, and would > > Foundation be able to fund such an initiative? > > This is something we'd be prepared to consider. We have set aside a > budget for conference material and marketing for things like printing > flyers and t-shirts, and we'll consider requests against that budget. > Send us a proposal (cost per t-shirt, number of prints, total cost) > today if possible, we'll consider it at tonight's board meeting. I don't have anything harder than an idea so far. So I'm not going to be able to get anything to you today. I was more hoping to gauge the current situation with regard to funding and establish what possibilities are available. --d -- Davyd Madeley http://www.davyd.id.au/ 08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118 C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list