[LGM] reimbursement form

[María Leandro]

not that urgent though :)

mail sent. thx.


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

> I don’t know what pm means but I am the one who deals with reimbursements.
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> 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).
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> Louis
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> 2013/4/16 María Leandro <tatadbb at gmail.com>
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>> 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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>>>>
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>>>> Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com
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