Re: LA application

Hi all,

Robin is asking for a LA grant to allow him to attend FOMS, LCA,
provide a talk at SLUG, prepare a FOMS Europe collaboration, and do
further relationship building between European and Australian Linux
groups in particular around media applications.

Robin has been offerend partial travel sponsorship from FOMS, but as a
community member without an employer backing him, he will not be able
to afford to pay for the remaining travel expenditure in full.

Since I can see a lot of positive impact for the Australian open
source community out of this, I'd support his grant request.

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 4:30 AM, Robin Gareus <robin@...> wrote:
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> Hello Linux Australia,
>
> Date:
>  This application: Dec 12, 2009
>  FOMS: Jan 15,16 2009
>  LCA:  Jan 19-24 2009
>  SLUG workshop/talk: Jan 30 2009
>
>  planning to leave Amsterdam,NL: 12.01.2008
>  planning to return: 12.02.2008
>
> Project Name:
>  Linux Media Workshop, FOMS & LCA
>
>
> Aim of Project:
>  Extend developer collaborations at FOMS + LCA and present a
>  hands-on tutorial on open-source A/V production at SLUG.
>
>  Besides running day to day business of linuxaudio.org, I'm author of
>  various FLOSS software [1] and affiliated with quite some FLOSS
>  projects around gnu/linux multimedia [2]. During my stay in AUS I'm
>  going to focus on interoperability and consolidation with emphasis on
>  JACK A/V sync.
>  Indirectly your grant will support development of xjadeo.sf.net,
>  lumiera.org and ardour.org. Directly it may affect projects of other
>  FOMS participants and SLUGs.
>
>  Furthermore this trip offers the opportunity to build a deeper
>  collaboration between developer groups in Europe and Australia.
>  I am involved with organizing the linux-audio-conference 2009 and
>  am exploring possibilities to organise a FOMS Europe. Attending FOMS
>  and LCA would be beneficial as to see how you are handling it there.
>
>
> Person Responsible for Request:
>  Robin Gareus
>
>
> People/Groups Supporting Request:
>
>  Silvia Pfeiffer (FOMS)
>  FOMS CTTE & President Annodex Association
>
>  Sridhar Dhanapalan (CTTE, SLUG)
>  President SLUG
>
>
> Request:
>  I require additional funding for travel to FOMS and meet a talk
>  invitation at SLUG.
>
>  Talks to be given at FOMS, LCA Multimedia miniconf and SLUG.
>
>  FOMS is offering $1000 partial travel sponsorship to me.
>  The air-fare will cost approx $3750 [3] and I would like to ask LA to
>  contribute $2000 towards this; if possible more. I am prepared to pick
>  up further travel expenses, including accommodation and local travels,
>  with my private money. I will, however, not be able to take the trip
>  without additional funding to the FOMS money.
>
> sincerely,
> robin
>
>
> [1] http://sf.net/users/x42 ; http://mir.dnsalias.com/gitweb/
> http://mir.dnsalias.com/oss/
>
> [2] linuxaudio.org, openmovieeditor.org & libopenvideo, jackaudio.org,
> ardour.org
>
> [3] with Quantas: AMS <-> SYD - 1,850 euro = 3,740$
>    AMS <-> Sydnet|Melbourne <-> Hobart - 1955 euro = 3900$
>
> quantas.com.au accepts only HTTP post search requests - see here for a link:
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>
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