On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Mel Chua <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 05/26/2010 01:45 PM, Mel Chua wrote: >>> My situation: I speak at several conferences each year, and I have two >>> talks confirmed at LinuxCon aside from the mini-summit. My company >>> usually pays travel expenses for my conference attendance. However, we >>> were just acquired by a different company a few months ago. Financial >>> issues are still shaking out, and my travel budget has disappeared >>> completely. I would not expect a TOS organization to pay my entire >>> travel agenda to LinuxCon, but would be very pleased if I could get the >>> plane fare (~$500) and possibly one hotel night (~$180) covered. >> >> I'll check with my team's budget and see if we can find $680 somewhere >> in the "discretionary education-related stuff" bucket or otherwise. Will >> keep the list posted. This seems like a great example of the sort of >> thing that should be funded anyhow. > > Hey, Jeff - Red Hat has set aside some budget for TOS-related stuff, and > this sounds like a good use of this budget to us. :) If you'll write a > trip report to Planet TOS, Red Hat will gladly cover your plane flight > and one night of hotel.
I'd like to put my hat in the ring here, too. I'm still a student and co-organizing the summit; so any help with travel funding would be really appreciated (I can certainly write up a proposal and trip report, too). --Sebastian > If this sounds agreeable, find me on IRC and we'll get the details taken > care of (mostly "I should put your plane ticket on my Red Hat credit > card"). > > So I suppose this works as an informal budget request protocol, and we > can try to figure out ways to make it more useful/transparent. :) > > --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
