Request for funds for GUADEC 2021 satellite event in Berlin
- What is your name?
Tobias Bernard
- What are you requesting a budget for? Be as specific as possible.
We're organizing a little local GUADEC satellite event in Berlin (July 21-25). Since most people can't travel to GUADEC in person this year for obvious reasons a few of us who are based in or near Berlin want to use the opportunity to get together, do some hacking, and watch the talks.
We're being hosted by Onion Space, a co-working space in Wedding (Gottschedstrasse 4, 13357 Berlin). Since we'll be using the space for the better part of a week we'd like to make a donation to them for hosting us.
- What goals do you have for this request and why are they important for GNOME?
Our goals include creating opportunities for community bonding, strengthening the local Berlin community, and getting some work done (e.g. the designers will be working on the stylesheet refresh).
Having strong local communities is important for GNOME because they're a way for existing contributors to collaborate in person and newcomers to meet the community, outside of the more formal and infrequent hackfests and conferences. The hacking we'll be doing is obviously also important for GNOME, especially as UI freeze for GNOME 41 is coming up in a few weeks :)
- How many people will your activity impact? This can be an estimate.
We're expecting between 5 and 10 attendees across the various days.
- How will you measure the impact?
It's hard to measure the impact of social events, but I think increased future activity in the local Berlin community could be a good measure. What we can definitely measure is how much we get done in terms of hacking, e.g. number of issues, merge requests, blog posts, etc.
- What is your requested budget? You can include this in your local currency.
200 Euro
- Is there a date by which you need a decision?
Ideally July 21, but we know we're really late with this so it can be after GUADEC.