Yesterday I was contacted by Diogenes de Souza to be a speaker at CONSOLINE[0] 2013, the Northeastern Brazil Free Software Congress that will take place in Recife, Pernambuco, on the 9th of November.

Lots of communities and FOSS projects will be present and I was invited to represent Fedora Project and speak about Fedora in a talk. Fortunately, the event happens during the afternoon so I can take a bus to go to Recife early in the morning and take one back late in the night.

I'd like to request sponsorship to travel to this event (which has +1000 attendees, as of last years' edition) and, if available, some money to produce bottons/pen.

According to this[1] search I did, bus tickets will cost around R$ 120, which is about 55 USD. I was thinking of 25 bottons and 25 pens that, based on my last purchase, would cost about R$ 115, which is about 53 USD.

I believe we don't have much money left, so I will only put the value of my bus ticket on the trac ticket. If during the meeting we agree it's important to produce bottons/pen, I fix it.

Why I think it's important? Recife is probably the most important tech center in north/northeast Brazil, and I don't think we have active contributors from there. At least not ambassadors. It would be interesting to gather some contributors there.

0 http://www.softwarelivrene.org/
1 http://www.embarcou.com/consulta/natal-rn-x-recife-pe?social=false&dataPartida=09-11-2013&dataRetorno=09-11-2013#.Um8nWfEzC1E