Oh, sorry. Travel Assistance Committee - https://tac.apache.org/
While this isn’t *exactly* their mandate, it’s adjacent, and certainly their expertise. —Rich > On Jan 21, 2025, at 11:02 AM, Russell Spitzer <russell.spit...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I'm not familiar with that Acronym, who is that? > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2025 at 9:54 AM Rich Bowen <rbo...@rcbowen.com> wrote: > >> 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> 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 >>>> >>> >> — >> Rich Bowen >> rbo...@rcbowen.com >> >> >> >> >> — Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com
