-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Do we have any updates regarding this? A lot of people is still in the "dark" without knowing when it will happen and/or how... :-(
Other sponsored people from South America got the reimbursement? On 11-12-2008 19:06, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: > On 11-12-2008 12:13, Margarita Manterola wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Michael Schultheiss >> <schul...@debian.org> wrote: >>> Margarita Manterola wrote: >>>> Rather they were in the America lot, which should have been covered by >>>> SPI long ago. Hasn't it been done? >>> The only people I'm aware of that were in the SPI lot were the 4 US >>> attendees being reimbursed. If this is not the case, please e-mail me >>> at treasu...@spi-inc.org. >> So, this has obviously been a communication problem. All the people >> from the Americas (as in the whole continent, not just the US) should >> have been paid with the money at SPI. > >> Jörg, can you please send the names, amounts and account info to >> treasu...@spi-inc.org? > > Be aware that for Brazil it doesn't work quite like that. If > somebody got an international transfer in an individual account, they > will have to pay taxes (big painful taxes, in some cases close to 40%). > > At least, for Brazil, one of the best solutions would be to > check the amount that needs to be reimbursed, check the Brazilian pool > of Debian and DebConf money, if it is enough (and probably it is not) > than OK (but we will need to start thinking about get more money in > Brazilian pool for next years). If it is not enough, SPI could transfer > the money to ASL.org and then we took care of reimbursing people inside > Brazil. I can check the "pool" if you want. and of course, I can help > with the process and bureocracy. > > I'm not sure how much will be the taxes for the SPI->ASL.org > transfer, I know that we have other alternatives, specially if somebody > is coming to Brazil and could bring the money in cash (or traveler's > check) so we can exchange it here and make the deposit without any > taxes. > > I know that while Josh Berkus were SPI treasurer, he was > looking into alternatives to get money inside Brazil, because > PostgreSQL-BR is also using ASL.org to handle its assets. I'm cc:ing > Josh (he may help) and other relevant people to help in the Brazilian > case. We have something like PayPal here, but I'm unsure if it will > work for SPI. > > All in all, we should at least send an statement about the > actual status of what's going on with the reimbursement process for > the affected people. - -- Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) "Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkl1X24ACgkQCjAO0JDlykZw1ACgrI0LZgIGRYfzS5BlNRWZUhLd Uh4An0hb4RA0P8oPuKUC/lfHEw36Ad1R =rW5z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
