Hi, Mary! On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Mary Dopart <mary.dopart at oracle.com> wrote:
> All, > (...) > > If you plan to attend one of the events, we hope you will make time to meet > with members of the users group team! Please send mail to them to set up a > time to meet them - they will reply to your mail and suggest at time to meet > and will also indicate the name of the Oracle booth for the meeting! We do > hope you will take time to join the team and discuss your issues, concerns > and plans for your group! > Send mail to > nichole.scott at sun.com > bambi.staveley at oracle.com > jackie.rose at oracle.com > mary.dopart at oracle.com > > Are you planing any other way to meet us, like conference calls, or video conference? For some of us (I'm talking for people like us, in Argentina, who have a currency issue) it's impossible to travel to one of this countries, because the travel cost represents, sometimes, two entire salaries. > During the last few weeks we received many requests from leaders to > secure travel subsidies to attend the upcoming events. We understand that > travel subsidies may have been available in the past, but Oracle's > corporate policy does not allow us to provide subsidies for customers or > users group leader to travel to an event. > I remember from my four years working at Oracle Argentina a rule like this, because of a "ethics and gift limits" policy. I understand this, and support the idea of having a gift limit. As you can see, I studied the Oracle ethics manual (yeah!), and I'm convinced about its value :-) . Don't understand why user group leaders cannot have this benefit. It's like inviting somebody to give a talk to my company, and avoiding to pay his/her flight. If you check the behaviour of other Open Source communities around the world, the normal behaviour is to pay the travel when interested in having somebody "at home". I'm an active member of CaFeLUG (Capital Federal GNU/Linux Users Group), and this is what we did when we received Richard Stallman, Maddog Hall, and several other Open Source evangelists. Knowing this, I understand there must be another way to have almost the same level of communication with you, Nichole, Bambi and Jackie. This is why I need to know (maybe more people are concerned about this) how will you facilitate this, or if this policy will be reviewed in some way. > > We hope that if you are near the events, you will be able to attend one of > them. And we are committed to staying in touch with all on this > distribution list so you understand our plans and next steps for the users > groups! If you have questions please send them along to us. > > Thank you for your support and participation! > > Regards, > Mary Lou Dopart > > Best regards, Hern?n "HeCSa" Saltiel AOSUG leader CaFeLUG member Verizon Business Project Manager ITIL - PMP certified > > > > _______________________________________________ > osug-leaders mailing list > osug-leaders at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/osug-leaders > > -- HeCSa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20100302/21d28a02/attachment-0001.html>
