[ossig] Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Developer Travel Fund

[Ditesh Kumar]

From
http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/press/2007/04/30/linux-foundation-announces-open-source-developer-travel-fund/

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Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Developer Travel Fund
Monday, April 30th, 2007 
Linux Foundation Announces Open Source Developer Travel Fund

Funds will allow community’s elite developers to attend technical
conferences for collaboration; two grants already awarded

SAN FRANCISCO, May 1, 2007 — The Linux Foundation (LF), the nonprofit
organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today
announced the formation of the LF Community Developer Travel Fund. This
project stems from the recent formation of The Linux Foundation and its
commitment to driving technical collaboration and support for the open
source development community. The new initiative will provide funding to
community developers to attend technical conferences, such as the
upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, where meaningful
technical collaboration and development takes place. Community
developers can apply at http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Travelfund.

It is vitally important for community developers to attend technical
conferences to enable face-to-face collaboration. While the open source
community was built from online participation, there is still no
substitute for face-to-face meetings, especially when planning or
driving consensus. In fact, many of the important technical
breakthroughs in open source history occurred during these conferences.
Many open source developers, however, do not have access to funds to pay
for travel to attend these conferences. The Linux Foundation has created
the Community Developer Travel Fund for these developers to accelerate
technical problem solving and collaboration in the open source
community.

Sponsorships are open to elite community developers with a proven track
record of open source development achievement and who don’t otherwise
have access to funding for attending technical events.  During the
application process, applicants will need to point to their development
achievements in key upstream Linux projects. Conferences covered by this
fund include the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summits held three times
a year, the LF’s Japan Symposia, the Kernel Summit, Ottawa Linux
Symposium, Linux.conf.au, desktop conferences such as GUADEC and
aKademy, and other technical conferences where true collaboration takes
place. The Travel Fund does not offer sponsorships to trade shows or
non-technical conferences.

The first Travel Fund recipients are Ed Trager, maintainer for
Unifont.org, which provides information about Unicode fonts,
Unicode-enabled software, internationalization, and Unicode usability
issues on free/libre/open source (FLOSS) operating systems, and Jeff
Waugh, a founding member of Canonical and a key GNOME community
developer. Trager will travel to and attend the Text Layout Summit at
aKademy with his LF grant. Waugh’s grant will be applied to his expenses
for attending the Linux Foundation’s Collaboration Summit June 13 - 15,
2007.

“This fund is for rock stars of the open source world,” said Jim Zemlin,
executive director of the Linux Foundation. “This is not for someone who
lurks on a mailing list. Getting a grant from this fund will be an honor
reserved for those developers contributing the most to Linux and who
have the greatest need for travel funds. The Linux Foundation wants to
directly support these important developers. We think the Travel Fund is
a good start to that support.”

The LF staff will review applications for the fund and make
determinations with feedback from the Technical Advisory Board,
technical workgroups and others as needed. Sponsorship awardees will
also receive a t-shirt from the LF commemorating the grant.

To apply for a sponsorship please visit
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/Travelfund. The Linux Foundation
urges potential applicants to read the criteria closely before
submitting an application. Only elite open source developers attending
technical conferences will be eligible for a sponsorship.

About the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering
the growth of Linux. Founded in 2007, the Linux Foundation sponsors the
work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and is supported by leading Linux
and open source companies and developers from around the world. The
Linux Foundation promotes, protects and standardizes Linux by providing
unified resources and services needed for open source to successfully
compete with closed platforms. For more information, please visit
www.linux-foundation.org.

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