Re: GNOME Asia: are there grants for presenters?

[Jehan - GIMP <jehan girinstud io>]

Hello Ekaterina,

On 2016-02-01 14:43, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
> 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

Thanks for the answer. I just sent an email with the form, following 
described process. Do you have any idea when you will know of the budget 
(hence we will know if we will be funded, i.e. will be able to go 
there)?

> 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.

I will ask, but I will hold a little to know of GNOME answer first. GIMP 
is already funding our travel every year for the Libre Graphics Meeting, 
so we are trying not being too much of a burden.
Thanks for the quick answer!
---
http://girinstud.io



Jehan

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