Hi again, FOSDEM is approaching and I don't think I will get an sponsor in such brevity.
Santiago, Phill, are you willing to take care of this talk? I can coach and support you, if needed. The details about the proposal are here: https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/open_research_pocket_infrastructures/ Cheers, Offray On 19/12/19 4:30 p. m., Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: > Hi, > > The subject pretty much resumes the current situation: organizers at > FOSDEM[1] approved my talk about Grafoscopio for the 2020 version (Feb 1 > and 2). They tell me that they don't provide travel funds, but because I > spoke about the voluntary and self funded nature of the project and > asked for travel funds, the usual route here is trying to find an > entity, located in Brussels that would be interested in some workshops > about the tool and that will cover travel expenses. Ideally such entity > would be related with the subjects and themes we have been working with > the Grafoscopio community: civic tech, hacktivism, reproducible > research, data journalism, data feminism, critical science and > technology studies, open data, collective writing self publishing and > book sprints. > > As you can see, Grafoscopio and its community are pretty versatile and > diverse in their concerns and approaches, so I hope that opens > possibilities for a lot of interested sponsors, located in Brussels. > Even sponsors in Europe could work, as internal travel is kind of cheap > and the biggest part of the expenses are inter continental travel. I > don't know of any particular European entity that could sponsor my > travel funds for FOSDEM, but hopefully the European pharoers know of > some. The FOSDEM organizers asked me for some possible entities so, I'm > all ears :-) > > Santiago and Phill, any particular ideas? If not, remember that we can > prepare a remote talk :-) > > [1] https://fosdem.org/2020/ > > Thanks, > > Offray > > >
