JUC US West travel grant

[Daniel Beck]

Hi everyone,

We last discussed supporting community members' travel to conferences in fall last year[1]. Unfortunately, I could find no followup discussion from back then.

Why am I bringing this up now?

Pradeepto Bhattacharya was a speaker at JUC Europe this year and gave two talks [2][3]. According to a colleague of mine who's met him, he's a big Jenkins fan, giving talks about his work with Jenkins, but not a contributor to Jenkins or plugins. He paid for travel to London out of his own pocket, and asked whether the Jenkins community could help pay for him attending JUC US West, where he's scheduled to give another talk[4].

I'd like to discuss at tomorrow's project meeting whether we can support his travel to JUC US West and put that on the agenda.

Daniel

1: http://meetings.jenkins-ci.org/jenkins/2014/jenkins.2014-09-17-18.00.log.html
2: https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2015/abstracts/europe/01-01-1400-bhattacharya
3: https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2015/abstracts/europe/02-02-1400-bhattacharya
4: https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2015/abstracts/us-west/02-02-1400

[Christopher Orr]

On 04/08/15 23:29, Daniel Beck wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> We last discussed supporting community members' travel to conferences in fall last year[1]. Unfortunately, I could find no followup discussion from back then.
>
> Why am I bringing this up now?
>
> Pradeepto Bhattacharya was a speaker at JUC Europe this year and gave two talks [2][3]. According to a colleague of mine who's met him, he's a big Jenkins fan, giving talks about his work with Jenkins, but not a contributor to Jenkins or plugins. He paid for travel to London out of his own pocket, and asked whether the Jenkins community could help pay for him attending JUC US West, where he's scheduled to give another talk[4].

That question of travel sponsorship seems like it should be directed to
the conference organisers, as JUC is a commercial conference organised
by a for-profit company separate from the open source community?

Though I do agree with hare_brain's contributions in the previous
discussion, and there certainly is enough money to be handed out for
travel grants.

Though in this particular case, as you mention, the video and slides are
already online for this exact talk, so I'm not sure what the benefit to
the community is?

Unrelated to travel, perhaps being able to sponsor development of
certain projects would be a good use of the money.

Anyway, thanks for bringing it up — we can discuss tomorrow :)

Regards,
Chris

[FredG]

Hi,

I agree with Chris.
The JUC seems to have enough commercial sponsoring to afford travel grants.

Apart from that, I like hare_brain's idea of saving a dedicated amount of money for travel grants each year.
That money could be spend on a first-come-first-served basis with only a few questions asked.

Regards,

Fred