On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 05:05:04PM +1000, Michael Still wrote: > Dan Shearer wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 02:53:02PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > >>How would LA paying KDE e.V. to send me to Stuttgart (for instance) be > >>any better? That way, you have LA -> KDE e.V. -> studentflights (or > >>whoever), as opposed to LA -> studentflights. > > > >I was meaning you could appeal for companies and individuals to give > >targetted dontations to KDE e.V. (and you could also ask > >KDE e.V for funding directly.) > > This is a difference between Jeff and Daniel's grant applications > (unless I am mistaken again). Jeff has been offered funding by the Gnome > foundation, but would prefer they spent that money on other things. Has > Daniel been offered funding by the KDE foundation people? I've been told it's possible, but probably not going to happen; they also mentioned they could sponsor about 5 European developers with the money it would take to fly me over alone, so if they could, they'd certainly prefer not to. Sorry for not disclosing this fact: I completely forgot about it. No malice intended. :) -- Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org> "The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_, available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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