It may be worth talking with TAC about how they do things. I don’t think Sharan is spending time on ASF stuff at the moment.
—Rich > On Jan 21, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > 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 > <mailto: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 >> <mailto: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 — Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com
