#434 Funding Request for FUDCON Cusco 2013 - Neville A. Cross (y1nv)
Closed: Fixed None Opened 10 years ago by yn1v.

  • What do you need covered? (Please estimate the costs in USD: hotel $X, travel $Y.)

Travel = Total: $1,391.29 I do not have information about event accomodation at this time to include that on my request.

  • If we cannot provide a full subsidy, will a partial subsidy be helpful? (Yes/No?)
    No, I do need full subsidy this time

  • What will you accomplish by being at FUDCon? (Please be as specific as possible, since this is the most important factor in granting requests.)

Talk: Building Community of collaborators, the fedora school experience in Nicaragua.
Freemedia: Global infrastructure for local action. (how freemedia can create bonds, and help new users)
Workshop: Trac installation, configuration and administration.
Workshop: Hints and tips for requesting funding for swag and events.
Workshop: FAS sign up (how to create an fas account and sing up for groups, this will be helpful for new comers)
Hack: Gnome shell, build a structured feed back for the new release F19 (curently using F19 Alpha)

I have seen other people proposing talks/hacks on translation, raspberry pi and icaro robotics. I will more than happy to support their talks/hacks.

I would like to get in touch with people working on fedocal for learning how to deploy local instances and providing feed back from end user experience.

  • If you are requesting airfare, include complete flight information such as flight numbers, desired departure and arrival airports, and times. Also let us know if you have specific time restrictions.

Departure September 24th (arriving next day)
Managua (MGA) 5:30pm to San Salvador (SAL) 6:20pm => TACA 397
San salvador (SAL) 7:42pm to Lima (LIM) 1:07am + 1day => TACA 955
Lima (LIM) 5:20am to Cusco (CUZ) 6:45am => TACA 803

Returning September 30th
Cusco (CUZ) 8:05am to Lima (LIM) 9:30am => TACA 830
Lima (LIM) 10:30am to San Salvador (SAL) 2:00pm => TACA 416
San Salvador (SAL) to Managua (MGA) 8:30pm => TACA 315

This is the flight that I searched for in orbitz as the cheapest. I am planning to arrive the day before the fudcon and leave the day after. I can give help setting things up and cleaning the mess we left.

I am completely flexible in hours and days. For lodging cost I may arrive on the same day of fudcon as the flight gets really early. As I am requesting sponsorship I will accommodate to any schedule.

  • Do you need a visa or other official processing before you can attend FUDCon? If so, approximately how long does that processing take?

Not as far as I know. I will double check and confirm.

  • Include any additional, relevant information.

I am allergic to shellfish (lobster, shrimps ...) and molluscs (clams, oysters...) regular fish are fine.


I just posted a new workshop proposal on the wiki page. Reporting bugs: Step by step how to report bugs. Just trying to keep in sync the wiki and my sponsorship request.

I can buy the ticket with my credit cards. The problem is that I can not receive funds directly by paypal.

I was told that I can not use the community credit for FUDCon expenses.

In the past I received reimbursed at events by Max Spevack and Jared Smith, I accumulated up to $800 pending of reimbursement for those occasions. Later I was reimbursed by Harish Pillay using Wester Union. I understand those are no longer options.

I am looking into options. For instance send the reimburse to my sister living in the US by paypal. But I have to confirm with her, how she will make the money reach my hands. I just wrote to her. I will keep updated the status of this.

Replying to [comment:3 yn1v]:

I can buy the ticket with my credit cards. The problem is that I can not receive funds directly by paypal.

I was told that I can not use the community credit for FUDCon expenses.

It is my understanding you can use your community credit card for any legitimate Fedora expense. I guess we should clear that up since it would make things easier for you.

John

Thanks John it will be nice if we can clarify this point.

I checked with Red Hat, and there doesn't seem to be any reason you can't use your community credit card for FUDCon expenses.

air ticket receipt Neville A. Cross (yn1v)
flight_receipt.pdf

I bought the flight ticket for $1,056.79 using my credit card. I will post a comment later to confirm the paypal account that I can be reimbursed to.

I was afraid that the price went up if I waited longer. I added a couple of day longer to get to know the city, there was no change in price for that.

I was granted subsidy for lodging, but when I get to know the costs I have tell that I will be paying for that. I only will ask for reimbursement of flight ticket.

The ticket was $1,056.79 and I have to add 4.5% of fees that will be $47.55 for a total of $1,104.34

I will be transfering this to my sister's paypal account, as she is a US Citizen, she has no problem to transfer the money into a bank account.

The transfer was made on september 17th

If you have any outstanding issue in this ticket please reopen.

Best Regards!

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