Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
Hi Davyd, 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 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. 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. Cheers, Dave. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
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
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
Hi, Davyd Madeley wrote: 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. Sometime in the next two weeks should be fine. Cheers, Dave. -- David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
One problem of associating GNOME with the name Linux is that it could tend to encourage the widespread tendency to think of GNOME and all of GNU as part of Linux. Arranging sponsorship through gnome.conf.au instead of linux.conf.au would be a small step to avoid encouraging this. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
Hi all I am the one who has asked for sponsorship. Knowing that gnome.conf.au would be a miniconf to be held after linux.conf.au. I have already mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED]and Jeff just before mailing Davyd.I submitted a proposal to linux.conf.au and they replied that it would be of more interest to gnome.conf.au.As I did in guadec, I am again volunteer to help in organizing the conference if you there is anything I can do. Regards,SaraOn 10/11/06, Davyd Madeley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Board et al,I received today a request for travel sponsorship to GNOME.conf.au.Obviously, GNOME.conf.au, being run as a no-money event (where we charge no entry, but all the facilities we require are provided forus by linux.conf.au).It seems to me that sponsorship to this event should really behandled by linux.conf.au, but I was wondering if the Foundation sawany place for itself here.-While we're on the topic of money. Last year we put togethert-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 whopresents a complementry t-shirt. Unfortunately, to do this requiresfunding. Does the Board think this is a good idea, and wouldFoundation be able to fund such an initiative? --d--Davyd Madeleyhttp://www.davyd.id.au/08B0 341A 0B9B 08BB 2118C060 2EDD BB4F 5191 6CDA___foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.orghttp://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
quote who=Davyd Madeley I received today a request for travel sponsorship to GNOME.conf.au. Obviously, GNOME.conf.au, being run as a no-money event (where we charge no entry, but all the facilities we require are provided for us by linux.conf.au). 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. My linux.conf.au 2007 lead organiser hat is very firmly on for this reply (and I'll mention some things that Davyd already knows, just so everyone else can understand where I'm coming from). linux.conf.au is a community-focused, non-profit conference held by a fresh volunteer team, in a different Australasian city each year. It is one of the world's very best. You're all too late to submit for the 2007 CFP (suffer in your jocks), but you could always come down for GNOME.conf.au. For three years now, it has been one of the best miniconfs (community organised streams) supported by the main conference. The miniconfs are not funded (aside from basic venue, signage and so on) and are not allowed to source sponsorship independently from the main conference organisation. Most of the miniconfs don't need sponsorship anyway, so this might seem unnecessarily fascist -- however, we have to work around multiple events harassing potential sponsors, and inappropriate commercialisation of the miniconfs (such as a miniconf being run by a company, for their own interests). Mostly, it means no banners, no advertising, no naming rights. However, miniconf organisers can work with the main conference organisers to sort out sponsorship issues, should they arise. For instance, agreeing that a sponsor can support travel/accomodation for a particular person at a miniconf, but being visible as a sponsor as the main conference, etc. So, the simple answer from linux.conf.au's point of view is this: We don't have the money to sponsor miniconf participants -- we already invest *lots* (seriously *LOTS*) of money in travel/accomodation for the main conference. In terms of the Foundation, while it can't sponsor GNOME.conf.au, there is no issue whatsoever with the Foundation funding travel/accomodation for an attendee (much like a company will pay for a staff members to attend, but this would not be considered sponsorship). Thanks, - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Hunch, n.: U.S. Foreign Policy. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
quote who=Jeff Waugh My linux.conf.au 2007 lead organiser hat is very firmly on for this reply With my GNOME Foundation hat on: There are *lots* of Foundation members who I would love to fund to attend linux.conf.au (thus GNOME.conf.au too), as I believe it is one of the most valuable and influential events in the FLOSS world [1]. Without wanting to offend Sara, I think that other contributors would be more appropriate, meritocratically speaking. However, Sara demonstrated the initiative to ask, which counts for a lot. I hope other Foundation members do so in the future. - Jeff [1] and not just because I'm deeply involved with it -- maybe talk to Keith, Jim, or some of the other unbiased attendees and speakers who have been to the conference *and* want to come back year after year. -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ Acts of random. ___ foundation-list mailing list foundation-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
Re: GNOME.conf.au and sponsorship
Sara, On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 01:11 +0200, Sara Khalatbari wrote: I am the one who has asked for sponsorship. Knowing that gnome.conf.au would be a miniconf to be held after linux.conf.au. I have already mailed [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Jeff just before mailing Davyd. I submitted a proposal to linux.conf.au and they replied that it would be of more interest to gnome.conf.au. Just to clear things up, you submitted a paper to linux.conf.au and it was rejected, and you would still like the chance to present that paper at GNOME.conf.au? What was that paper? --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
