I'm not sure how any of these things are set up in the past, so I was hoping we could get some insight from those who have already done this. I think if speakers are having difficulty funding their travel this would be a good application of the donation.
On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 9:46 PM Zheng Hu <open...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Russell > > Great news, and it's great to hear. Do we have any guidance about how to > apply the funds for the attendance ? > > ( Currently, I'm trying to post Chinese news on a China website, to invite > more talks from Chinese companies, if it's a possible benefit for > speakers, I would love to add it in the post ). > > Best, > Zheng. > > > On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Com Dev and Sharan in particular, >> >> We recently received a donation of funds and voted that we would use it >> to establish travel grants/scholarships for folks wishing to attend the >> Apache Iceberg Summit 2025. Craig McClanhan suggested that ComDev would be >> a great resource for helping actually set this sort of thing up (and Sharan >> in particular). >> >> I've volunteered to take the lead on this project and I would like to >> know how to set up doing this sort of program. I have no experience with >> running grants and would greatly appreciate the know-how of the folks at >> Com Dev to make this happen. >> >> Ideally I would like to make it possible for engineers or aspiring >> engineers who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend, to join us for our >> second community conference. >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Russ >> >
