2009/6/9 Femke Snelting <[email protected]> > So, if Constant can help you by putting the money up front until you get >>> the >>> cash to reimburse, it will be helpful. On my part this year I had to take >>> all this on my personnal credit card and this is not really convevient, >>> to >>> say the least. But it worked expect for a small deficit of a few hundred >>> bucks. Nothing dramatic. :-) >>> >> >> I'm not sure what the status is with reimbursements for this year, >> but, I think that Louis should not be out of pocket for all his >> efforts organising the conference, so I would like to say that the >> flight costs reimbursements that would be paid to me ought to be paid >> to Louis so that he doesn't lose anything - and if others will do the >> same, perhaps we could have a shared reduced reimbursement to cover >> Louis :-) >> > > Constant can certainly pre-guarantee the hotel. Euh... though we'd hope to > avoid the defecit ;-) > > And yes, we are looking for a donated space. > > I propose to fix the dates anyway (I think it makes a better announcement, > and also: wouldn't it be nice if this year LGM is the first event to be > fixed in everyones agenda?). Unless anyone of you is already aware of a > competing event? On our side, Brussels has enough hotels to buffer and the > spaces we are looking at are not booked yet for May. > > I'm posting a draft anouncement on the wiki: > http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/Press_Release_1 > > While I figure out how to publish this on the LGM site (do you prefer to do > this, a.l.e or better I do it myself?) please correct, add etc. I'd like to > start spreading this as of tomorrow. We'll only be 2 days behind on schedule > ;-)!
This sounds great to me. Will post more on another email to the list. Louis > > > > Femke >
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