Hi, appearantly this mail hasnt made it to -team.
cheers,
Holger
On Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011, Gent Thaçi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to let you know even if you invite him and he accepts it, he
> will ask you a high charge for that with many conditions!
>
> Quoted you have the reply I got from his assistance after I asked him to
> come to our annual floss conference in Kosovo:
>
> *Mitnick- Terms and Conditions **For Engagements Held in South America,
> Australia, Asia and the Middle East*
>
>
>
> *Format and Appearance Fee:*
>
> Ninety (90) minutes total: Seventy-five (75) minute presentation followed
> by fifteen (15) minutes of open Q&A. Fee is $25,000.00 USD, gross, plus
> business/first class air travel and expenses for a total of five (5) days
> and four (4) nights.* This trip length allows the Speaker to have a full
> day of rest prior to the appearance date and one day to prepare for trip
> back, due to his extreme phobia of air travel.
>
> *In the rare circumstance that the Speaker cannot get to the event location
> within a single day of travel, the trip length would need to be adjusted.
>
> In addition, if an overnight layover is required in transit to/from the
> event, the hosting organization would be required to arrange and prepay for
> ground transportation in that layover city, as well as the night of
> accommodations in a five (5) star venue (room rate and taxes only).
>
>
>
> *Payment Terms:*
>
> All fees are paid in US dollars, via wire transfer directly to Mitnick
> Security Consulting. All payments must be received in full prior to the
> Speaker's departure for the Event.
> Two payments are required:
> 1) 50% of the total quoted fee, plus the calculated travel expense stipend,
> is due via wire transfer *at the time of your organization’s signature on
> the agreement*
> 2) The remaining 50% of the fee is due via wire transfer *thirty (30) days
> before* the event
>
> *Speaker’s Out of Pocket Travel Expenses:
> *A travel stipend is calculated to cover all out of pocket travel expenses
> * except* those outlined as your group’s responsibilities, below. This
> stipend amount is added to the first payment due. Full line item detail on
> how the travel stipend was calculated will be provided for your
> organization’s review as part of the agreement. In this manner, you will
> know exactly how much to budget for the Speaker’s participation in your
> program and there will be no ‘surprise’ costs after the event. If the
> Speaker’s actual out of pocket expenses are higher than those calculated in
> the stipend, the Speaker will fully cover the difference, no additional
> travel expense funds will be due from your organization. Likewise, the
> Speaker will allocate all travel stipend funds at his sole discretion and
> no expense report will be provided after the event.
>
>
>
> *Your Organization’s Travel Arrangement Responsibilities: (not included as
> part of the travel stipend)*
> We ask your organization to directly arrange and pre-pay for:
>
> 1) the Speaker’s business class airfare, booked full fare, fully
> changeable/refundable, and subject to the exact itinerary the Speaker
> requests via email, (Speaker will provide needed itinerary no later than 21
> days in advance of the Event date)**
>
> 2) the Speaker's 5 star hotel room (hotel with 24 hour room service
> and wireless high-speed internet in all guest rooms), taxes, international
> phone calls and internet service. The latter two items are used to test
> the demonstrations used in the presentation,
>
> 3) the Speaker's ground transportation via private car service
> (including both fare and gratuity) in the event city to/from the airport,
> his hotel and the event venue,
>
> 4) any visa application and processing fees (if required by the
> hosting country) - with the speaker cooperating fully, and
>
> 5) taxes or fees levied by the hosting country or city of the event
> (so the amount received by the Speaker equals the amounts outlined in the
> agreement).
>
> ***The Speaker is a highly phobic flyer and must research his own
> itinerary—using the safest airline and the aircraft with the best safety
> record. Therefore, the itinerary provided by the Speaker must be booked
> exactly as requested, to ensure the Speaker feels confident in making the
> trip. We know this is an unusual situation and we thank you, very much,
> for your kindness and consideration in this matter.*
>
>
>
> *Topics:*
> Mr. Mitnick has three excellent presentations to choose from, including his
> most widely requested presentation, The Art of Deception—which explores how
> people are often the weakest link in the security chain. Full descriptions
> are available for each presentation topic at
> www.NewLeafSpeakers.com/mitnick<http://www.newleafspeakers.com/mitnick>
> . The site offers a wide variety of information, such as high resolution
> photos, bio information, session descriptions, book jacket jpg's and
> footage clips. Customized presentations are available and pricing is
> provided after a 15-20 minute conference call between the Speaker and your
> group to determine the scope of customization needed and the time-frame
> available to create the presentation.
>
> * *
> *Please do not begin promotion of Mr. Mitnick’s appearance until a mutually
> signed agreement is in place and your deposit has been confirmed. Thank
> you very much for your consideration. *
>
> Try it yourself by mailing Jessica Riesenbeck
> <jess...@newleafspeakers.com>.
>
> Regards,
> Gent
>
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 21:40, Adnan Hodzic <ad...@foolcontrol.org> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > As we discussed on our last meeting, I mentioned inviting certain
> > people to participate on DebConf11, have a lecture or whatever. All of
> > this is to "exploit" whole event so we could get more interest and
> > basically introduce ~60million users to this Debian. Also we discussed
> > that this would be more of a mention/notification rather then
> > invitation. My initial idea was to invite Stallman, after discussed
> > this it turned out he's really not a person to invite. Mostly because
> > it could stray attention from original idea, and would more harm whole
> > event rather then help it.
> >
> > But another person I was thinking we could notify/invite/whatever
> > would be Kevin Mitnick. Only thing we could debate over is would be
> > probably "what does he have to do with Debian, or DebConf"? Right now
> > I don't have a lot of clue, except the fact that government would
> > probably like if we're bringing someone like him, regarding security
> > of course. And because then this whole event could be exposed through
> > media even more of course.
> >
> > Let me know what you think.
> >
> >
> > Adnan
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