Thanks! I reached out to them and will see what they say On Thu, Jan 23, 2025 at 4:22 PM Sharan F <sha...@apache.org> wrote:
> Hi Russell > > Thanks for reaching out. As I think Rich mentioned I'm taking a bit of > time out from ASF stuff at the moment and am sure that there are others on > this list and in the Comdev PMC that are willing to help out with this. > > I know that there are other projects that have implemented some kind of > funding or subsidiary to community members that are organising or > participating in community related activities. > > Talking to the travel assistance team about how they manage the general > ASF process could be a good place to start. > > Thanks > Sharan > > On Wed, 15 Jan 2025, 09:05 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 >> >
