With reference to mail below, please let me know what our policy on speaker compensation is. I think we should have a page on the site that we can point to in response to such a query. Thanks, Harshad - I have deleted the sender's name for privacy. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Hey I am a student and lives in Chandigarh which is far away from the Pune. I have also registered a talk named as "Hungry Snake - My First Game Using Pygame API" . My pygame articles also got published in the May and July edition of the Linux For You. I really want to attend this pycon. I am a student and I can't afford the expanse for my whole trip. Can you provide me any compensation in any manner??? I have read somewhere that pycon's provide the travelling allowance to the needy one or so. So plz help me. I don't want to miss this opportunity at any cost. Waiting for your reply Thanks
Harshad Oak <harshad@rightrix.com> writes:
With reference to mail below, please let me know what our policy on speaker compensation is. I think we should have a page on the site that we can point to in response to such a query. [...]
There's a thread going on on the list about this. -- ~noufal http://nibrahim.net.in The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep. -W. C. Fields
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Harshad Oak <harshad@rightrix.com> wrote:
With reference to mail below, please let me know what our policy on speaker compensation is. I think we should have a page on the site that we can point to in response to such a query.
Thanks, Harshad.
- I have deleted the sender's name for privacy.
I guess we will have several cases like this. I am all for helping people who really want to attend. But this could also trigger hundred such applications, and with all respect and concern for the genuinely interested students, you have no way of verifying the ingenuity of these applications, and we need a volunteer to check and verify, and approve. In addition there could also be some applications where a student may be looking for a free joy ride or excursion to Pune. How do you decide? There's a thread discussing this and the general consensus is that student speakers whose talk is selected will get sponsored. The exact sponsorship ie travel and lodging charges is not arrived yet.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hey I am a student and lives in Chandigarh which is far away from the Pune. I have also registered a talk named as "Hungry Snake - My First Game Using Pygame API" . My pygame articles also got published in the May and July edition of the Linux For You. I really want to attend this pycon. I am a student and I can't afford the expanse for my whole trip. Can you provide me any compensation in any manner??? I have read somewhere that pycon's provide the travelling allowance to the needy one or so. So plz help me. I don't want to miss this opportunity at any cost. Waiting for your reply
Thanks
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Ramdas S <ramdaz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Harshad Oak <harshad@rightrix.com> wrote:
With reference to mail below, please let me know what our policy on speaker compensation is. I think we should have a page on the site that we can point to in response to such a query.
Thanks, Harshad.
- I have deleted the sender's name for privacy.
I guess we will have several cases like this. I am all for helping people who really want to attend.
But this could also trigger hundred such applications, and with all respect and concern for the genuinely interested students, you have no way of verifying the ingenuity of these applications, and we need a volunteer to check and verify, and approve. In addition there could also be some applications where a student may be looking for a free joy ride or excursion to Pune. How do you decide?
There's a thread discussing this and the general consensus is that student speakers whose talk is selected will get sponsored. The exact sponsorship ie travel and lodging charges is not arrived yet.
I was meaning to respond to this yesterday .. but looks like it will have to wait till tonight. I wanted to think just a bit more since the matter has repercussions.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hey I am a student and lives in Chandigarh which is far away from the Pune. I have also registered a talk named as "Hungry Snake - My First Game Using Pygame API" . My pygame articles also got published in the May and July edition of the Linux For You. I really want to attend this pycon. I am a student and I can't afford the expanse for my whole trip. Can you provide me any compensation in any manner??? I have read somewhere that pycon's provide the travelling allowance to the needy one or so. So plz help me. I don't want to miss this opportunity at any cost. Waiting for your reply
Thanks
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Ramdas S <ramdaz@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Harshad Oak <harshad@rightrix.com> wrote:
With reference to mail below, please let me know what our policy on speaker compensation is. I think we should have a page on the site that we can point to in response to such a query.
Thanks, Harshad.
- I have deleted the sender's name for privacy.
I guess we will have several cases like this. I am all for helping people who really want to attend.
But this could also trigger hundred such applications, and with all respect and concern for the genuinely interested students, you have no way of verifying the ingenuity of these applications, and we need a volunteer to check and verify, and approve. In addition there could also be some applications where a student may be looking for a free joy ride or excursion to Pune. How do you decide?
I agree we need to be careful in vetting applications, but that shouldn't prevent us from creating a limited fund pool from which to sponsor 'n' number of students their travel and stay expenses (minus food) considering it falls within a certain pre-determined amount (could vary per city, but with an upper ceiling). It might be a bit too late right now to come up with an official policy for this Pycon, however, I would still suggest we go ahead and fund a limited number of students and put the larger question of formalizing this to a later stage. Still we can continue to have discussions meanwhile.
There's a thread discussing this and the general consensus is that student speakers whose talk is selected will get sponsored. The exact sponsorship ie travel and lodging charges is not arrived yet.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Hey I am a student and lives in Chandigarh which is far away from the Pune. I have also registered a talk named as "Hungry Snake - My First Game Using Pygame API" . My pygame articles also got published in the May and July edition of the Linux For You. I really want to attend this pycon. I am a student and I can't afford the expanse for my whole trip. Can you provide me any compensation in any manner??? I have read somewhere that pycon's provide the travelling allowance to the needy one or so. So plz help me. I don't want to miss this opportunity at any cost. Waiting for your reply
Thanks
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participants (5)
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Anand Balachandran Pillai -
Dhananjay Nene -
Harshad Oak -
Noufal Ibrahim -
Ramdas S