[CREATE] Proposals for LGM 2010 - Deadline approaching

[Louis Desjardins]

2009/6/9 Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>

> So, if Constant can help you by putting the money up front until you get
>>> the
>>> cash to reimburse, it will be helpful. On my part this year I had to take
>>> all this on my personnal credit card and this is not really convevient,
>>> to
>>> say the least. But it worked expect for a small deficit of a few hundred
>>> bucks. Nothing dramatic. :-)
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure what the status is with reimbursements for this year,
>> but, I think that Louis should not be out of pocket for all his
>> efforts organising the conference, so I would like to say that the
>> flight costs reimbursements that would be paid to me ought to be paid
>> to Louis so that he doesn't lose anything - and if others will do the
>> same, perhaps we could have a shared reduced reimbursement to cover
>> Louis :-)
>>
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> Constant can certainly pre-guarantee the hotel. Euh... though we'd hope to
> avoid the defecit ;-)
>
> And yes, we are looking for a donated space.
>
> I propose to fix the dates anyway (I think it makes a better announcement,
> and also: wouldn't it be nice if this year LGM is the first event to be
> fixed in everyones agenda?). Unless anyone of you is already aware of a
> competing event? On our side, Brussels has enough hotels to buffer and the
> spaces we are looking at are not booked yet for May.
>
> I'm posting a draft anouncement on the wiki:
> http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Press_Release_1
>
> While I figure out how to publish this on the LGM site (do you prefer to do
> this, a.l.e or better I do it myself?) please correct, add etc. I'd like to
> start spreading this as of tomorrow. We'll only be 2 days behind on schedule
> ;-)!


This sounds great to me.

Will post more on another email to the list.

Louis

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