Hi, I agree with Chris. The JUC seems to have enough commercial sponsoring to afford travel grants.
Apart from that, I like hare_brain's idea of saving a dedicated amount of money for travel grants each year. That money could be spend on a first-come-first-served basis with only a few questions asked. Regards, Fred On Wednesday, August 5, 2015 at 12:30:13 AM UTC+2, Christopher wrote: > > 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/7e501a19-3d42-436f-8512-ec7d06cb1083%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
