Zacchiroli: 1 year of Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant

[Posted December 29, 2015 by ris]

Stefano Zacchiroli was the recipient of a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant in January 2015. He now reports how he spent the money. "On grant money I've attended LibrePlanet 2015 (2015-03-19-boston-libreplanet label in the financial reports below), where I've given the talk Distributions and the Free "Cloud", and FSFE's LLW 2015 (2015-04-15-barcelona-fsfe-legal) workshop. Furthermore I've used the grant to reimburse otherwise not reimbursed out of pocket expenses in a trip to San Francisco (2015-11-06-san-francisco-gsoc+osi) that have been otherwise sponsored by Google (to attend the Summer of Code Mentor Summit) and OSI (to attend a F2F meeting of the Board of Directors). Finally, I've used grant money to offer lunch to invited lecturers in my master-level Free Software class at the university (label 2015-foss-class)."

Zacchiroli: 1 year of Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant

Posted Dec 30, 2015 17:14 UTC (Wed) by ovitters (guest, #27950) [Link]

This is not specific to the article or complaint even if it could be read as such.

IMO it would be nice instead of giving money for some useful purpose to instead give the same amount of money for a useless purpose. E.g. not 5000 USD and free software is improved. Instead: USD 5000, go and travel for a bit / give a big party / anything that various people consider a waste of that money (IMO travel is useful). That it really is an extra and not an additional task in any way. Ideally that "wastefulness" is encouraged or almost required.