On 28-1-2013 16:38, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 22:32 -0800, Jon Cruz wrote:
Hi Guys,
I was wondering if would want to offer a travel subsidy to help get a few people to our booth at SCALE 11x? We have a booth allocation, and 10 conference passes that go with it. At the moment I have just two bodies committed (myself, and a talented assistant in my now college student daughter), so more can be helpful. I live near enough so I just drive on in.
Rooms at the hotel are listed for $112 a night, and a quick spot-check on flights from the East Coast are in the $300-$400 range. Those might be a good benchmark for the upper range on a normal expectation of how far SCALE attendees might come. Sometimes even partial assistance can help get people there who otherwise might be on the fence.
A yes from me too. In principle, I would favor getting developers together rather than manning booths but since we are not currently using the funds for that this is a good alternative.
When the costs are within reason, I'm OK with it too. (even if someone wants to fly in from Europe, I feel it would be too much to refund the full travel cost) Should we set some limit on "manning booth"-type of expenses? (the amount per person, and the total number of persons?)
I do not really agree with "we are not spending on devs -> let's spend on manning booths". There is always the option of not spending, waiting to spend it on other things.
I will be asking for funds at some point to attend an SVG working group meeting (the next European based one). Work on SVG 2 has really been heating up. I want to see that the browser vendors (particularly, the CSS interests) don't dominate SVG 2 development (see my blog[1] for the kinds of issues that can come up).
I find your involvement in SVG very important, so: YES!
I am also contemplating going to Libre Graphics in Madrid. It's a relatively cheap flight from Paris to get there.
And finally, I would like to host a developer hacking session sometime in the spring.
!!! I'm awaiting more details! ;-)
Regards, Johan