On 27 June 2016 at 21:34, A. Mani <a.mani.cms(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You seem to have missed all the conversations in the Fedora Women
and
Diversity list
Everything was done in these.
Firstly I want to clarify that I am not talking about the Kolkata
event because there is a formal CfP out on this list and there is not
a lot to complain about there. It would be nice however if you could
link the speaker names to their user pages to know who they are.
So moving on, I have missed the discussions because I am not on those
mailing lists. Likewise, I am sure a lot of women contributors to
Fedora who may be qualified and interested in attending and speaking
at the conference may have missed the conversation completely and may
find themselves excluded. When doing a local chapter of a global
event, it is not sufficient to just reach out to the global lists, one
must reach out locally.
I did file a apac trac ticket long ago
The problem is budget is to be specified beforehand (in previous year).
We conceived this event in March-April.
So the Kolkata event is mainly getting sponsored by Ubuntu Women.
Again, while my question in this context was specifically for the Pune
event it also wanted to pick at the inability of the local ambassadors
to be able to push for a budget when we hardly utilize anything that
is allocated to us anyway. I don't exclude myself from that charge
just because I was unavailable to contribute to it.
However looking at the ticket, the items you need like stickers and
dvds could have been obtained by asking on this list or making a
specific request for it on trac. Those items don't need to be part of
the event budget. Travel subsidy for this event seems excessive given
that I haven't seen it happen outside of premiere events.
I think PJP (pjp AT
fedoraproject.org ) can help with DVDs and
stickers if you haven't reached out to him already.
Siddhesh
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