On Tue, 2009-11-17 at 09:02 +0100, Cor Nouws wrote: > Alexandro Colorado wrote (17-11-2009 2:13) > > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Cor Nouws <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Sounds as a good event. But when there were many OOo representatives last > >> year, what would make it worth for you/us to invest in travelling to Spain > >> then? > >> We could of course, but IMO investing in flying in people from far, makes > >> most sense when you want to build a community or have some special reason. > >> > >> Can you make this more clear? > > > > The organization couldnt find fund enough to get my flight. So I will retire > > my request now. > > Sorry to hear that. > But this still does not learn us something on how to handle such a > situation. Or does it?
Doesn't solve this particular problem but there are EU mobilities and small projects grants available to fund travel related to vocational training. We just hosted 12 Romanian teachers here for two weeks teaching them about using Open Source software among other things, paid for by an EU Leonardo Da Vinci mobilities grant through the Romanian National Agency. Anyone in any SME or education organisation in Europe could apply for a grant like this to fund travel to a range of relevant events to support OOo. http://www.leonardo.org.uk/page.asp?section=00010001001900010001§ionTitle=Mobility+Projects http://www.leonardo.org.uk/page.asp?section=0001000100190002§ionTitle=Small+Scale+Co-operation+Projects Links above are to the UK National Agency, you apply to the relevant equivalent in your country. The marketing project members in Europe could get together and share ideas at a series of physical meetings funded by a small cooperation project grant and use that to plan a series of mobilities that helped disseminate information about OOo to SMEs. There are large scale projects too. I'm running one on transfer of Innovation currently and I intend to bid for money in February ~ 300,000 Euros to support OpenOffice.org certification and translations into all 23 EU languages. We can also use the money to set up OOo certification centres in every EU member state generating a sustainable income to spread to countries outside the EU for further marketing and further grant applications. There are valorisation grants specifically for publicising and spreading project outcomes. This will take a couple of years assuming the grant application is successful. If it isn't, we just keep applying until it is :-) If anyone wants to apply for grants I can give help but there is a limit to the time I have so I can't be directly involved in small scale and mobility bids. -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications A new approach to assessment for learning www.theINGOTs.org - 01827 305940 You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
