<div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/3 Susan Spencer <<a href="mailto:susan.spencer@gmail.com">susan.spencer@gmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Just curious, but how do you confirm that everyone has entered their data? Has this milestone been completed? What is the next step in the timeline? </blockquote><div> Hi Susan, Here is the info you're looking for: *Who qualifies :* Developers or presenters who have attended LGM and who are officially entitled by each team’s leader(s) or who were invited to talk at LGM by the organisers and who have not been sponsored by other means to travel to LGM. *What we reimburse : *We aim at reimbursing in full the travel trip, that is the transportation only, plane, bus, train, fuel, upon receipt of the proof of purchase of your ticket. We need to first find out the total amount we are asked to reimburse. If there is enough money, we reimburse 100%, if not, then we’ll reimburse proportionally to the money we have. If we have more money, the remainder is bumped into the next LGM budget. So far, we’ve been lucky enough to be able to reimburse 100% of the submitted expenses. We have a specific page on the LGM webiste where entitled people can file themselves in, upload their receipts and all relevant info so we can reimburse them. We fix a deadline to gather the data and then we close the web page. This info is posted on the Create list or on the website. Then the process starts. I understand there are some glitches in the process. When this occurs, we act as rapidly as possible to address the issue. For Montreal 2011, we aim at refunding entitled people within a month after the conference, that is on Friday, June 10, 2011. Louis </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> I do not need to be reimbursed, as we used skymiles for my ticket, and my husband's hotel, per diem, and plane ticket were paid for. His employer enthusiastically supported his attendance at LGM. Not everyone at LGM 2010 was as fortunate, and I hope that the delay in reimbursal does not affect the 2010 persenters' decisions to attend LGM 2011. As I do not require reimbursement, perhaps this is considered to be 'butting in'. But I do care that we have the quality of persons in attendance as last May. LGM 2010 was an influential event in my creative life, and hopefully 2011 will be equally as influential to others. Bureaucratic paperwork is no fun, and sometimes money disbursements are the most difficult of all processes to complete. I'm sure those who are waiting are concerned, but if you make reimbursements now, these participants perhaps would this money to make early, and therefore cost effective, arrangements to attend the meeting in Montreal. Just my opinion, we trust that the LGM team is doing its best, - Susan<div><div></div><div class="h5"> <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> > we can only process the payment > once everyone has entered their data. </blockquote></div> </div></div> </blockquote></div>