[I'm now subscribed, CCs no longer needed] On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 16:07 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: > Please let us know how much you are actually asking for and what the > benefits to the community are. Until I get some idea of how much the debconf organisers can give me, I don't know. I'm guessing AUD $500-$1000. Benefits to the community (quoting my mails to the committee): None of this is specifically for the Australian FOSS community: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.linux.org.au/projects/grants Looking at that page, some comments: > The request must: Partial travel sponsorship for a conference doesn't seem to come under any of these. Apart from perhaps any work I get done during debcamp. I don't have any specific plan for debcamp yet, depends on who is there, possibilities include debian-gis, i18n/fonts, QA, general (RC) bug fixing/release process, and I also had an idea to go through debian's many patches and send appropriate ones upstream. > Support for organising an event or conference I suppose if I volunteer to help out with organising while I'm there, I can satisfy this. > Be a member or affiliate of Linux Australia Don't think I am either of those. Only contact I've had with LA was talking to pia on irc.indymedia.org in #oceania, and these emails. Not really sure whether I should send a proposal, any advice? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The grants scheme is really about helping Aussie projects and people > to do great things Yeah, hence my hesitation in mails to the committee. > there is a bit of a precedent for not paying money to send people > overseas Yeah, thanks for that pointer. > Paul, if you can get partial funding by Debian or another sponsor, perhaps > it would make more sense for LA to help out? Yeah, that is the idea, the Debconf sponsorship people would source most of the funds and LA would provide a smaller amount to enable me to go. Any ideas for other places to look for funding? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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