Re: GNOME Asia: are there grants for presenters?

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 30 January 2016 at 13:31, Jehan - GIMP <jehan girinstud io> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I already sent this message through the web form a few days ago, but never
> got the confirmation email. So I assume it never reached you. If in fact it
> did, please feel free ignore the duplicate email. :-)
>
> My name is Jehan, one of GIMP core developers. I'd be interested to come
> with Aryeom Han, another GIMP contributor (some icon and website design),
> but especially the director of the Open Movie "ZeMarmot"
> (http://film.zemarmot.net). We would be coming from France.
> We could speak about:
>
> - GIMP, of course, especially the upcoming 2.10 version.
>
> - My work on encoding detection, very interesting for internationalization
> of software (hence GNOME in Asia) as the maintainer of the uchardet library,
> that is being included in several software, like gtksourceview, which means
> it should be available soon in gedit, etc. For gtksourceview WIP, cf.
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtksourceview/log/?h=wip/uchardet-2
>
> - Of course about ZeMarmot. This is not really a software topic, but I think
> Libre Art is an important topic. Moreover we are making a full 2D animation
> movie using the GNOME desktop, with various Free Software. That's cool by
> itself, no? :-)
>
> Why I am interested into the Asia side of the Free Software community is
> because I have lived 2 years in Japan and 1 year in South Korea. Aryeom
> herself is Korean (born and lived there most of her life). We are Free
> Software people and want these to be better known in Asia.
>
> So this is why we are asking if there are any grants to fund our travel
> because we don't have much personal funds and no company to back us up.
> Thank you very much.

There should be a be travel sponsorship available through the Travel
Committee (you can send in your request now and it will be processed
when we know what budget is available): http://wiki.gnome.org/Travel

You may also want to contact someone at GIMP in case there are travel
subsidies available through the organisation. I couldn't find any more
information online, but you should talk to Michael Schumacher
(shumalm) about that.

> Jehan
>
> P.S.: a non-exhaustive list of my contributions on various Free Software:
> https://www.openhub.net/accounts/Jehan/positions
>
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