[LGM] reimbursement form

[Louis Desjardins]

I don’t know what pm means but I am the one who deals with reimbursements.

You can get in touch with me off-list at my gmail address. If you need to
speak to me you can call me on my cell (if it’s really urgent).

Louis


2013/4/16 María Leandro <tatadbb at gmail.com>

> who can i pm regarding reimbursement issues? thank you.
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> 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>
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Louis,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I know I read it. Nothing particular stroke my attention at that
>>>> time.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No, really, I don’t feel strongly about changing this. Let’s avoid any
>>>> confusion, especially for this matter.
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Let’s do that, only to make sure everything is fine.
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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."
>>>
>>> We could send similar requests out to the various teams, and individuals
>>> who have given talks/workshops.
>>>
>>
>> Hi Jon,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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!
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Louis
>>
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