Request to increase the budget for GUADEC travel by $10K
The travel committee had $20K given to them by the GUADEC committee to use on GUADEC. Approving just speakers, the committee was able to reserve ~2K for GSoC applicants. Now that the intern list is out, the requests have come in and are higher than anticipated. We have requests for 8 students and 2 mentors. In order to fund them, the committee would need an additional $10K. Note that this is the best case scenario with all the sponsored folks able to get visas. History shows that is rarely the case, so the final number will probably be lower. While this number is not in our budget, this use case is core to our programming and would help make GUADEC successful.
Can a board member propose this so that we have a board vote?
Edited by Rosanna Yuen