Re: las-gnome press travel funding

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 22 July 2018 at 20:59, meg ford <megford gnome org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 6:14 AM Ekaterina Gerasimova via las-gnome
> <las-gnome gnome org> wrote:
> > On 18 July 2018 at 23:06, Rosanna Yuen <zana gnome org> wrote:
> > > I'm all for sponsoring speaker travel first. If we need to sponsor
> > > speakers
> > > to get them there, that's a higher priority than having press as
> > > otherwise
> > > there would be nothing for the press to cover.
> >
> > Is the travel sponsorship not being handled by the TC?
> >
> > When I was on the TC, the committee did indeed sponsor press people
> > and speakers, and prioritised them appropriately.
>
>
> I asked in the irc channel and the response was that speakers will only be
> sponsored if they are Keynotes or foundation members.

This doesn't sound right, I'll follow up with TC and Sri in private to
double check what's going on here.

> Meg
> > > -Rosanna
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 1:17 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> > > wrote:
> > > > So Swapnil Bhatiya asked me if there was a possibility of travel
> > > > funding
> > > > for LAS.  He was interested in attending.  I'm personally for this.  If
> > > > we
> > > > want to expand we really need press participation and Swap is one of
> > > > the
> > > > best out there.  He knows how to capture an idea and write about it.  I
> > > > would like to see if we could fundraise money for him to come to the
> > > > event.
> > > >
> > > > sri
> > > >
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