<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 6:49 AM, Peter Gutmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz" target="_blank">pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">Wasa Bee <<a href="mailto:wasabee18@gmail.com">wasabee18@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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>as an academic, you can get travel expenses covered by university. To attract<br>
>people who write open source sw on their *free* time, you need to cover their<br>
>expenses.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree. We're hoping to have some budget available for travel grants for people interested in participating.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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</div>Even for academics (let alone OSS developers, as you say), if it's<br>
international travel you probably can't attend. What about having some sort<br>
of video-based session where people who can't physically attend can<br>
contribute?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This would be great. If there's sufficient interest I'll work on the logistics.</div></div></div></div>