Hello,
I am requesting round-trip travel funding from Mumbai, India to Tirana, Albania and accommodation for three nights (Friday - Sunday) for OSCAL 2019. My estimated travel costs are approximately 1000USD (Air Tickets cost as of today on https://www.skyscanner.co.in)
I request for a 3 days lodging. I am assuming other Fedora contributors from our community will also attend. I am okay with sharing a room. I need to yet look for a room, but the estimated cost should be around 100USD
Fedora is funding OSCAL this year too. Here is the relevant ticket - https://pagure.io/mindshare/issue/81 and This will be 6th edition the Fedora community will be present at the event. From the very first edition there were Fedorians having talks and supporting an infobooth.
Here are few planned things, which I look forward to do at OSCAL, 2019: 1. I am accepted as a speaker for my 3 talks at OSCAL - A. Fedora for everyone - - How to be part of the Fedora community. - Openness in a culturally diverse world - Contributing to open source - Importance of communication in open source communities/case study Fedora
B. Quality is everyone's responsibility - - Fedora Quality Assurance - How to optimize testing time - Quality Engineer - role in a cross functional team.
C. Unexpectedly Agile - - Agile documentation - Open source project management tools for agile teams
I will participate in all the Fedora community activities at OSCAL - Fedora meetup, Fedora booth and Fedora release party I will help @marianab to organize all these activitie.
If time will permit, I am also planning to visit Brno with my own cost (visa + in-between travle + stay)to have meeting with the current diversity advisor Jona Aziza about this year's diversity plans.
@amsharma do you mean your talks in 2019 are accepted or that your had talks in 2018?
+1 assuming 2019 talks
+1 assuming 2019 talks :smile:
yes, It was a mistake, It is for 2019. Thanks for pointing out. I have corrected it now. Thanks everyone for the votes @bex @bt0dotninja @x3mboy :)
@bex is it approved and may I go ahead with the bookings or do I need to wait? Thanks.
+1 @amsharma $1000 budget requires you will need 3 +1s and 0 -1s and the ticket has to be open for at least 11 days (IIRC) , the ticket meets first half of criteria and it needs to be open for a week more to be called as approved...
ok thanks @sumantrom for confirming,
+1
@sumantrom @bex Hello, ticket prizes are increasing and it is just 16 hrs left to be 11 days. Should I go for booking today please?
This ticket is approved. Please post a link to your event report here. When you have completed your event report, please open a fedora-budget ticket to work on reimbursement. Red Hat associates should complete a cost center transfer per policy and contact @bex directly to work out the details.
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Blog Post - https://whatamithinks.wordpress.com/2019/05/27/oscal-2019-tirana-albania/
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@amsharma Thanks for the trip report.
What kinds of questions did the students ask? Did they seem like they were already users, likely to be users, contributors, what?
Can you put some numbers (estimates ok) around attendance at our events/talks/parties/booth?
What would we need to do to make attending next year worthwhile? Was our sponsorship a good investment of our resources, as opposed to, for example spending the funds on swag or travel?
What messages and priorities of the project were appropriate for this crowd?
Did you find the crowd different from last year? My experience was also students and new people being the bulk of the crowd.
@amsharma Thanks for the trip report. What kinds of questions did the students ask? Did they seem like they were already users, likely to be users, contributors, what?
There was a mix of all but the percentage of students who can be potential users was more. They had queries around installation, how to begin with contribution etc.
Rooms were almost full at all the talks and party as well. Thanks to David Halasz and @marianab who helped in the arrangements for the party. Here is a glimpse for one of my talk https://twitter.com/adsamalik/status/1129666847765422081/photo/1
I believe Fedora has made a very good reputation and it's popularity increased in Albania and among OSCAL participants. We definitely should not discontinue, It will waste all our efforts which we have done to make a strong foundation. Regular smaller Fedora events with the help of local contributors can help more between OSCAL time.
Fedora installation should be the first target. All students have laptops and they need an OS, @marianab did a great job by asking her professor in the college to try Fedora for their experiments in lab. We can build a strong user base (which we are doing) and from there contribution will begin.
Not much different but I noticed OSCAL managed to attract more professionals this year as compared to last year. There was phplist team, team from CoreOS and few other professionals from different well known organizations.
What would we need to do to make attending next year worthwhile? Was our sponsorship a good investment of our resources, as opposed to, for example spending the funds on swag or travel? I believe Fedora has made a very good reputation and it's popularity increased in Albania and among OSCAL participants. We definitely should not discontinue, It will waste all our efforts which we have done to make a strong foundation. Regular smaller Fedora events with the help of local contributors can help more between OSCAL time.
Has our reputation translated into contributors or users? What would it take to make sure those smaller events happen as it sounds like without them we are just reputation building, but not growing our community.
What messages and priorities of the project were appropriate for this crowd? Fedora installation should be the first target. All students have laptops and they need an OS, @marianab did a great job by asking her professor in the college to try Fedora for their experiments in lab. We can build a strong user base (which we are doing) and from there contribution will begin.
How are you measuring this user base?
Did you find the crowd different from last year? My experience was also students and new people being the bulk of the crowd. Not much different but I noticed OSCAL managed to attract more professionals this year as compared to last year. There was phplist team, team from CoreOS and few other professionals from different well known organizations.
Were these speakers or attendees?
What would we need to do to make attending next year worthwhile? Was our sponsorship a good investment of our resources, as opposed to, for example spending the funds on swag or travel? I believe Fedora has made a very good reputation and it's popularity increased in Albania and among OSCAL participants. We definitely should not discontinue, It will waste all our efforts which we have done to make a strong foundation. Regular smaller Fedora events with the help of local contributors can help more between OSCAL time. Has our reputation translated into contributors or users? What would it take to make sure those smaller events happen as it sounds like without them we are just reputation building, but not growing our community.
I met and saw few faces (can't recall names sorry), who were beginners last time and this time they were trying to guide others. So, there is a progress. May be we would like to do some survey kind of a thing next time, which can give us better stats.
What messages and priorities of the project were appropriate for this crowd? Fedora installation should be the first target. All students have laptops and they need an OS, @marianab did a great job by asking her professor in the college to try Fedora for their experiments in lab. We can build a strong user base (which we are doing) and from there contribution will begin. How are you measuring this user base?
During the conference, I can just talk by the number of people who were interested to come and attend talks on Fedora. Surveys can give better stats if we would like to do so.
Did you find the crowd different from last year? My experience was also students and new people being the bulk of the crowd. Not much different but I noticed OSCAL managed to attract more professionals this year as compared to last year. There was phplist team, team from CoreOS and few other professionals from different well known organizations. Were these speakers or attendees?
There were speakers too. I attended few talks and I personally like these two - 1. Jos Weyers (Vice-President of tool.nl ) - post-its, post-its, post-its everywhere (and how they relate to physical keys) 2. Sam Tuke ( CEO of phpList) - Open Source Product Development: from research to release
Ofcourse there were more among these - https://wiki.openlabs.cc/faqja/OSCAL_2019/Axhenda
Thank you @amsharma
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