On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Richard Darst wrote: > One of my goals to help DebConf attendees get reimbursed quickly for > their approved travel sponsorship costs. There are two parts to this: > > - Getting reimbursement forms in from attendees quickly. It is > DebConf's job to do this quickly, and I am working with various > teams to make sure that we get all the forms *during* DebConf this > year.
Would it be possible to get and return the forms electronically again? Dealing with printers and scanners is a pain. > - Getting money in from sponsors to be able to have money to send out > again. This can sometimes take months after DebConf, though we > should be in a better than normal position this year. BTW, an idea for new sponsors; the Debian derivatives census includes information about the sponsors for derivatives: http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/CensusFull A summary: Bayanihan: Government: DOST-ASTI, Philippines: http://www.asti.dost.gov.ph BCCD: Corporate: Intel, Supercomputing Education Program: http://sc10.supercomputing.org/?pg=edprog.html BOSSlinux: Government: C-DAC, India: http://cdac.in/ CoreBiz: Corporate: Linux Information Systems AG: http://www.linux-ag.com/ Debathena: Corporate/Govt: MIT: http://web.mit.edu gNewSense: Nonprofit: FSF LinEx: Community: CESJE: http://www.cesje.es/ LinEx: Corporate: GPEX: http://www.gpex.es/ LinEx: Government: Junta de Extremadura: http://www.juntaex.es/ SPACEflight: Government: EU/ESF/SAB research project FlexCloud: http://flexcloud.eu/ Tucunare: Government: Banco do Brasil: http://www.bb.com.br/ Ubuntu: Corporate: Canonical UniventionCorporateServer: Corporate: Univention GmbH Vyatta: Corporate: Vyatta: http://www.vyatta.com/ If you find an inaccuracies please let me know. It would also be In addition, some of the listed derivatves are for-profit, they might be interested in helping out with sponsorship. > One possibility to work around the second problem is to use general > Debian funds as a buffer. We could reimburse attendees from Debian > general funds, and then in a month or two, replenish Debian funds from > our sponsor money. I'd personally be a bit nervous about this ... > I am watching DebConf finances closely enough that I think that we > could track and manage such an arrangement. Thus, my question to you > all is: ... but I guess if someone with DebConf finance experience is Ok with it, I'm happy. > --> Is this worth pursuing? > > I do *not* know what Debian's non-DebConf assets are, and where they > are. Before anyone agrees to this idea, of course we must know the > details of where money is money is and how much buffer we have (of > Debian funds, but also sure enough that we will get sufficient sponsor > money) that this is fiscally responsible. I guess the Debian auditor (luk) or the DPL will reply to this. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
