[LGM] reimbursement form

[María Leandro]

who can i pm regarding reimbursement issues? thank you.


2013/4/16 Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com>

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> 2013/4/16 Jon Nordby <jononor at gmail.com>
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>> On 16 April 2013 14:35, Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at gmail.com>wrote:
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>>> 2013/4/16 Femke Snelting <snelting at collectifs.net>
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>>>> Hello Louis,
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>>>> You are right, this page is not accessible from the front page but I
>>>> put a link to it in the confirmation e-mail to speakers. I ran this
>>>> phrasing by you all some months ago on this list, and I haven't changed it
>>>> since than.
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>>> Yes, I know I read it. Nothing particular stroke my attention at that
>>> time.
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>>>> However if you feel strongly about changing it now ... it's your call;
>>>> I personally think it would be better if the phrasing could stay more or
>>>> less the same, just to prevent confusion.
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>>> No, really, I don’t feel strongly about changing this. Let’s avoid any
>>> confusion, especially for this matter.
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>>>> We're part of a responsible community ;-) and I have not experienced
>>>> any abuse of the LGM travel-fund (on the contrary, many people feel
>>>> embarrassed to ask) but if any of that would happen, we can deal with it
>>>> case by case? Also, I'd be happy to go over the requests with you in case
>>>> you have doubts.
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>>> Let’s do that, only to make sure everything is fine.
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>> I see the email for the reimbursement announcement has already gone out,
>> great.
>> In the interest of transparency and fundraising, can we follow up this
>> with a request that the people that request sponsorship describe how LGM
>> was for them, what they did, who they connected with, any accomplishments
>> etc..?
>> I think it is important that the people who have already sponsored, and
>> those who may be willing to sponsor, get to know what exactly their money
>> is used for.
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>> Here is a proposed text, feel free to amend in any way necessary.
>> "We would appreciate if you would write a few sentences about your
>> experience of this years Libre Graphics Meeting. Did you get any new
>> perspectives? Did you meet any inspiring people? Did you get to discuss and
>> solve problems not possible without being in the same room?
>> Links to photos, blog posts or similar are also great. We plan to use
>> this in a summary of this years event, to tell the world what LGM is about."
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>> We could send similar requests out to the various teams, and individuals
>> who have given talks/workshops.
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> Hi Jon,
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> Good idea! Plus, the text you suggest is to the point, short enough but at
> the same asks significant questions. Since we do have some homework as we
> need to put together a final report that will be used for sponsors it maybe
> a good idea to ask for the participants (whether their trip was sponsored
> or not) for input.
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> At this point, I wouldn’t change the online form for reimbursement because
> it’s been like this for a few years now, it collects banking infos and all
> the like so not the same purpose as comments and appreciations by
> participants and last, it’s online already and for a short period of time
> so we can start the reimbursement process asap.
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> Having said that, I think that the questions you have phrased could well
> be added to the other form we have to gather such information from the
> participants and the teams. Femke has already edited it and I leave that up
> to her to see how she could make use of them!
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> Cheers!
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> Louis
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>> Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com
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