Our community team at Red Hat has allocated $8k USD for TOS for the remainder of this fiscal year (which runs until March 2011), and I've been assigned to manage it; this budget is intended to be a pool available for initiatives the TOS community wants to do (in other words, propose things and help me spend money!) This is *not* meant in any way exclude other organizations from contributing and managing their own TOS budgets - in fact, I hope they will! We just figured we'd step up as an example since some funding requests were already coming in.
LinuxCon requests were the first ones, and were retroactively handled from this pool; you can see them on the budget page and the accounting for that has been pretty much settled, though trip reports have yet to come in *coughCOUGHcough*. I aim to manage this budget transparently, so you'll see all funding proposals coming through this list, and everything's being tracked on this wiki page. http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/Budget#Red_Hat This budget is *SEPARATE* from budget available for POSSE alumni classes, which I'll discuss later in a separate email. (Short version: POSSE alumni can request funding for their TOS classes to fly in a guest speaker, buy hardware, present at a conference, etc.) The first thing I've set aside budget for is infrastructure, if there are expenditures that we'd like Red Hat to sponsor (though with OSL's generous offer of hosting space, we may not need to use this budget at all). For the remaining $6444.84, I have a few strawman ideas based on thoughts that I've seen discussed on this list and also from a conversation with Steve Jacobs when I was in Rochester this June. Thoughts and feedback welcome! 1. An open BoF-style dinner at FIE (depending on attendance, perhaps $800 - inviting FIE attendees who aren't active in the TOS community but might be interested) 2. A presence at SIGCSE that resembles a mini-POSSE - basically, an intro-to-FOSS-participation session at an academic conference for academics who will already be *attending* that academic conference, perhaps $3k for swag, food, travel stipends for instructors 3. A presence at some major FOSS gathering that's being hosted at a university (I'm thinking about https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Tempe_2011) - basically, an intro-to-FOSS-participation track at a FOSS event for academics who are already *located near* that FOSS event, perhaps $3k for swag, food, travel stipends for instructors. I'd see this as an introduction dinner the night before the event for orientation, and then "tour guides" or "event buddies" during the actual event who'll walk alongside and annotate what's happening to the "visiting academics" as they go along. (Yes, I know these add up to slightly more than $6444.84.) Thoughts? Questions? --Mel _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
