Travel Fund Questions for Project Community Members

[jorydotcom]

We want to make sure all the project communities are informed about the summit, and about the travel fund process, when we go out to them requesting their attendance + session ideas. We want to review & confirm/verify process questions about the travel fund before we do that:

• All projects in the foundation, regardless of stage or incubation status, are eligible to use the travel fund.
• The fund can cover the costs, in whole or in part, of a contributor's hotel, airfare, and event registration (for OpenJS World and the Collab Summit)
• Fund Applicants should seek to use employer funds as a first resort. Need is a factor.
• Employees of Foundation Member companies are eligible, but we encourage the use of internal funds that may be available to them first.
• Any member of a project community, who has had recent, sustained contributions to the project for the past 90 days or more is eligible.
• Are there other guidelines to give 1) applicants or 2) project maintainers for applying and reviewing requests?

Related issues/PRs:

• Balancing privacy vs. transparency for the travel fund cross-project-council#397
• Finalise travel fund process cross-project-council#441

[mcollina]

I absolutely agree on all the above.

[mhdawson]

I think this are a good starting point. I would be nice to be more specific than sustained contributions to the project for the past 90 days but I don't have a better suggestion.

[ruyadorno]

I find that being more specific than that is quite difficult since the definition of contributions can be very different depending on each project, WG, etc

[joesepi]

With the merging of PR openjs-foundation/cross-project-council#492 I believe we can close this issue.