Hi Council and Mindshare committee,

I recently (wrongly) assumed that my team (Fedora QE) would have the budget for a plane ticket to Brno to present at DevConf.CZ and was accepted to present a talk (Getting Started in Fedora QE). I know that DevConf is not an event that Fedora or RedHat budgets travel costs for, but I think my talk would benefit users and developers alike. As I have been involved in Fedora QE for 2 1/2 years working remotely, I believe I have a lot of experience getting involved in Fedora, interfacing with people on other teams who are contributing, and having a presence in QE that benefits Fedora as a whole. I think this experience could be shared among other developers and users alike to benefit them in their day-to-day work, especially those who work remotely or away from other Fedora users and are having a hard time making their voices/changes/work heard.

All this to say, I would like to ask for assistance from Fedora to finance my plane ticket to Brno to present at DevConf.CZ this year. I have already been accepted to present, assuming I can actually arrive in Brno in January. I know that this is not something that is usually budgeted for with DevConf and that this would be a special case, so if the committee finds this request dubious, I understand.

Thanks for reading.
Geoff Marr
IRC: coremodule