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While I think we all expect to hear more from Christel on the details, she posed |
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a good question - while I detest paperwork on general principle of rebellion |
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from the day job, do we have standard purchase request/funding request forms? |
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:15:19PM -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 17:25 +0000, Christel Dahlskjaer wrote: |
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> > How does one go about writing a proposal for funding? Is there a form |
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> > somewhere or do I just e-mail trustees@? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/foundation/en/requesting-funds.xml |
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> > To give you a quick rundown of what I am after, having had the pleasure |
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> > of diving into the Events kits for Joomla and GNOME I really want us to |
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> > have similar, they have a large metal box that is shipped to various |
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> > conferences (when they're not at an event it lives in the garage of one |
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> > of their developers and it's contents are replenished and checked prior |
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> > to each event), the box contains T-shirts in various sizes for people to |
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> > wear at the event (so, they do it fairly cheap and wash and reuse, I see |
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> > no problem with that if kept in good condition), leaflets, two TFTs, two |
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> > small machines (I'll ask around and see if we can score a couple of free |
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> > machines, I'm thinking one X86 or AMD64 box and one PPC (or other |
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> > arch)), some cables, some swag as give-aways (KDE does some nifty pin |
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> > badges, others do funky case badges, we could also look at pens, or |
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> > branded mints or whatever), a small projector, posters, a sign, t-shirts |
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> > etc for sale and a small cashbox. |
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> I like the shirt idea. We could get a few more of the nice polo shirts |
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> from Land's End that we've been using at LWE in the US. I'm not sure |
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> about the hardware, as it seems to be fairly easy to get hardware |
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> to/from the shows. I could see including a cheap switch of some sort, |
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> since that seems to be always needed. We have a nice poster, which is |
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> currently in Kurt Lieber's possession, which we should use for this. |
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> Also, remember that we can't sell anything at US shows, but we can give |
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> stuff away and ask for donations. All in all, I definitely like the |
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> idea. |
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> > I have some better notes on paper, which actually gives a greater idea |
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> > and I am waiting to get a few quotes back for various things before I |
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> > propose that you give us (PR) the cash to do it. If we do T-shirt and CD |
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> > sale fex. then the initial outlay should be covered fairly fast, and the |
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> > kit would become selfsufficient for re-stocking swag and leaflets. |
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> I can't wait to hear the details. |
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> > On a different note, I was saddened to see that LWE UK has had a 'Gentoo |
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> > not welcome' rule for a while now, after our developers kept booking |
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> > booths and not turning up.. I believe that is now rectified and we are |
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> > more than welcome in the future, even if it did cost me a hangover and |
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> > endless hours of talk with the guys that sponsor the .org pavillion! ;) |
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> Do you think it would be helpful to have all of this sort of |
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> communications filtered through the trustees? We definitely don't want |
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> any sort of bad reputation, so I know that I'm willing to do whatever is |
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> requested of me to assist in this matter. |
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> > I'd also like to ask what sort of time frame we look at for having a |
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> > funding proposal approved, as it would be nice to get a kit ready by |
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> > early 2007 as there's a few conferences happening. I know off-hand that |
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> > we'll have a official presence at SCALE, FOSSDEM, Linuxforum and |
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> > possibly LISA. All of which take place in February and March, which |
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> > would mean it'd be nice to be able to send a kit across to the |
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> > developers present at these and replenish as needed inbetween. |
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> It would be nice. I know that I'll be bringing some of my own equipment |
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> for FOSDEM. It would be very nice to have T-shirts there, as it was a |
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> heavily-requested item at the show. |
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> One thing to consider is we need to come up with some sort of guidelines |
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> on what to do with the monies gathered at the shows, if any. |
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> -- |
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> Chris Gianelloni |
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> Release Engineering Strategic Lead |
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> Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams |
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> Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee |
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> Gentoo Foundation |
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