[Ambassadors] FUDCon EMEA Budget

Paul W. Frields stickster at gmail.com
Mon Aug 9 14:51:39 UTC 2010


On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 07:43:40PM +0200, Gerold Kassube wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 08.08.2010, 11:29 -0400 schrieb Paul Frields:
> > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 7:50 PM, Sandro "red" Mathys
> > > <red at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > >> Alright. Do receipts need to be the originals, i.e. need to be sent by
> > >> letter or does a scan/pdf work?
> > >
> > > Max can tell us for sure, but I'm pretty sure a PDF copy will work, as
> > > long as it clearly shows the relevant information.
> > 
> > Yes, PDFs work fine.
> > 
> > >> And whenever I say Max I mean Max/Paul/Jared because Max really
> > >> stopped being responsive/reliable a long time ago.
> > >
> > > I'm sorry that Max has been so busy -- if you don't get a reply from
> > > Max, feel free to ping me directly and I'll track down an answer for
> > > you.
> > 
> > Sandro,
> > 
> > The budget should be set out on a wiki page that everyone can see. Is
> > it somewhere already and I just simply didn't know where to look?
> > 
> > Also wrt. people's transportation -- here's how I would do it:
> > 
> > * The committee puts the expected cost on the wiki page for budget,
> > and subtracts from the total. The running totals should always be
> > current so we don't overspend.
> > 
> > * Having many people trying to get Max's attention is not going to
> > help, when he's already too busy to answer just a few people. Have the
> > travel get in touch with Mel, Jared, or me, to book the tickets
> > immediately. They need to first look up the dates and times of the
> > flights they prefer, then send those to us -- and provide full legal
> > name (as on their passport or government issued ID), and a phone
> > number where they can be reached.
> > 
> > In the future it would be great if we could empower the EMEA NPO to do
> > this. If they could get around to resolving the name change that's
> > needed, we'd likely be able to fund all this work through that group.
> > Then things wouldn't be locked up on a few people in Red Hat.
> 
> ... Dear Fedora Steering whatever,
> there is no official paper, that says that "Fedora EMEA e.V." must
> rename hisself because of whatever. There are only discussions about
> that, because Red Hat dislike it sudden!
> But it is also real that we don't get any support as NPO, but we also
> didn't asked for, right.
> 
> So Jared, Paul, Max Jim or Whitehurst send me as President of the Fedora
> EMEA e.V. NPO the request with a explanation WHY and HOW we should
> rename that NPO and I will definitly go to decide with the Board and
> Members.

Hi Gerold,

I was simply referring to the conversations that happened at the last
EMEA Ambassadors FAD.  My recollection is that all of this information
was explained then.  Are you saying it would be helpful to reiterate
that information in a written request?

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