On 04/08/15 23:29, Daniel Beck wrote:
Hi everyone,

We last discussed supporting community members' travel to conferences in fall 
last year[1]. Unfortunately, I could find no followup discussion from back then.

Why am I bringing this up now?

Pradeepto Bhattacharya was a speaker at JUC Europe this year and gave two talks 
[2][3]. According to a colleague of mine who's met him, he's a big Jenkins fan, 
giving talks about his work with Jenkins, but not a contributor to Jenkins or 
plugins. He paid for travel to London out of his own pocket, and asked whether 
the Jenkins community could help pay for him attending JUC US West, where he's 
scheduled to give another talk[4].

That question of travel sponsorship seems like it should be directed to the conference organisers, as JUC is a commercial conference organised by a for-profit company separate from the open source community?

Though I do agree with hare_brain's contributions in the previous discussion, and there certainly is enough money to be handed out for travel grants.

Though in this particular case, as you mention, the video and slides are already online for this exact talk, so I'm not sure what the benefit to the community is?

Unrelated to travel, perhaps being able to sponsor development of certain projects would be a good use of the money.

Anyway, thanks for bringing it up — we can discuss tomorrow :)

Regards,
Chris

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