Re: Request for GNOME.Asia Summit to follow the regular travel sponsorship process

[Brian Cameron <brian cameron oracle com>]

This sounds like a good plan to me.  And if they want to limit the
maximum amount given to each person, I don't think that should be
a problem.

Brian


On 05/ 6/10 05:36 AM, Emily Chen wrote:
> Hello board,
>
> The third annual GNOME.Asia Summit is planning to be hosted in Taiwan
> for 2010.  The GNOME.Asia organizing team is currently planning for the
> event.
>
> If possible, we would like for the GNOME.Asia Summit to follow the GNOME
> Foundation travel process for the 2010 event.  For example, we would
> like people receiving travel subsidy for GNOME.Asia 2010 to follow the
> general GNOME travel subsidy policy.
>
> In the past two years the GNOME.Asia organizing committee tried to
> sponsor speakers with profits from the summit held in 2008. For the 2009
> Summit, we provided $5,000 to cover speaker's travel costs.  We only
> sponsored each speaker up to $400 for people traveling from Asia and up
> to $800 for people traveling from Europe or the U.S. We also only paid
> for transportation and not for lodging expenses.
>
> Will it be acceptable for the GNOME.Asia Summit to use the regular
> travel sponsorship process for the 2010 event and also the next events?
> We would like to request that the GNOME Foundation consider to help with
> GNOME.Asia travel costs. The money we request for the travel sponsorship
> is the same mount as last year, US $5000. The final cost should be based
> on the actual request from travel application, may be more or less than
> the amount.
>
> We need to foundation's help to bring people to GNOME.Asia Summit.
> Because speakers/participants are the most important thing to a conference.
>
> Thanks,
> Emily
>
>
>
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