#100 NA Ambassador - Red Hat Summit 2019 - Request for Funding (May 2019)
Closed: Insufficient data 3 years ago by hhlp. Opened 5 years ago by dyaffe.

Name: David Yaffe
FAS ID: dyaffe
Event Date: May 7-9, 2019
Event Location: Boston Massachusetts
Target Audience: approx 7,000 IT Professionals.
Wiki Page: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY20_Q1_.28March_2019_-_May_2019.29

I would like to request funding for accommodation expenses for Red Hat Summit 2019. Assuming all approvals are in place, I will be at Summit as a Red Hat Accelerator (https://access.redhat.com/accelerators), but want to spend time working/volunteering at the Fedora Booth. Travel is already paid for, and I should have a pass through the Accelerator program.

I created a table entry in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY20_Q1_.28March_2019_-_May_2019.29, for Summit. I did not populate the Owner field, or the Event Box/Vertical Banners
fields.

At this time, I am not sure what the cost of the hotel will be (3 nights), but I will update this request once I know.


Hi @dyaffe - Because of the heavy presence of many RH employees I am coordinating our Summit presence personally with @mattdm

I am excited by the idea of having you in our booth. Can you share some of your background in the project and your areas of expertise?

Can you also get a preliminary price for a hotel as it seems this is all of hte funding you need.

I have been talking to @dyaffe offline about participation in RH Summit. This will also be discussed at the 13 March meeting.

Areas of Expertise:
For the last decade, my day-to-day job is a Linux Application Administrator. I ensure several big data and OSS applications are up and running for a telco. I hold RHCE in RHEL 5 (expired), RHCSA in RHEL 6 (Expired), and a RHCSA in OpenStack.

The open source applications I am responsible for are Cacti, Nagios, Dokuwiki, and MantisBT. Our enterprise secondary logging platform is built on rsyslog and Gluster. I use python and bash scripting for any dataset preprocessing.

My technical skills focus on technologies like FreeIPA, Cockpit, DNS (ISC bind/named), DHCP (ISC).

I am also active in the Regina chapter of the Red Hat User Group, promoting Fedora Releases, or talking about technologies that get promoted from Fedora to RHEL. Last October I presented on Cockpit.

As for my background with the Fedora Project:
- Fedora has been my principle operating system since FC8.
- Fedora Ambassador. Mentor was @herlo.
- Report bugs, etc. when I can. Including one yesterday to Fedora-admin, with Ipsilon not working properly without an ssh-key in FAS.
- I have some experience creating RPM packages

Hotel is now booked. Best rate I could find in a reasonable distance (1/2 hour walk) was $319/night, plus 14.5% hotel tax.

Slightly pricey, but I'm OK with it. +1 from me.

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This is approved, barring -1 objections in 5 days - FYI

@dyaffe I remember you posting an event report. Can you link it here? Also did you open a budget ticket for reimbursement?

Metadata Update from @bex:
- Issue assigned to dyaffe
- Issue priority set to: None (was: awaiting triage)
- Issue tagged with: needs event report

4 years ago

Hi @dyaffe ,

Can you share with us your event report link?

We need it to close this ticket :crying_cat_face:

We discussed the open tickets tagged needs event report during our Mindshare Committee Meeting in Nov. 4 2020. Based on the extraordinary circumstances of this year, and the length of time since the event took place, we are closing this ticket. Please consider writing a report for the event still, we would welcome it, and make sure to prioritize reporting for future events. Thanks!

Metadata Update from @hhlp:
- Issue close_status updated to: Insufficient data
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 years ago

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