Well, given that you said it's probably not worth the amount to send you, I would probably be okay with something along the lines of the $500 funding for someone "local" provided that they could fill in for you on the speaking part.
Cheers, Josh On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Tavmjong Bah <[email protected]> wrote: > > BUMP > > Anybody else have feelings about this, negative or positive? > > > On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 09:57 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: >> On Sun, 2015-08-30 at 15:21 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > The Graphical Web Conference (formerly SVG Open) is taking place >> > Sept >> > 23-26 in Pittsburgh. >> > >> > https://www.graphicalweb.org/2015/ >> >> Sounds like the kind of thing Inkscape people should be attending in >> some form or another. >> >> > I submitted a talk on SVG 2 (in which I highlight Inkscape) which >> > was >> > accepted. For the past few years the conference has fully paid my >> > travel costs (I've asked Inkscape for backup funding each time but >> > I >> > never had to use it). This year it is clear that the conference >> > will be >> > unable to fund my travel as they are running a rather large >> > deficit. It >> > is probably not worth the $1500 it would take for Inkscape to send >> > me >> > to the conference but it might be worth sending someone who is >> > closer, >> > especially if that person could fill in for me. I was thinking >> > maybe >> > along the line of $500 of support. (We can probably get the >> > conference >> > fee waived.) >> > >> > What do you all think about this? >> >> It's interesting to me. Who's the closest and most available to >> PA/USA? >> >> I'm 1.4 hours away @ $164 by air. What about others? >> >> Martin, > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! > Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools > in one place. > SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-board
