Cool, thanks so much Louis! You are a star always! On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Louis Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi LGMers ! > > First, I want to thank again all the people who made it at both LGM 2008 - > Wroclaw and more recently at LGM 2009 - Montreal. > > It’s more than inspiring to see you all gather into this tremendous meeting > that is LGM since the very first time in Lyon - 2006. > > Second, for those of you who are waiting for a reimbursement of your travel > expenses, we’ve got news for you ! > > We are now ready to start the reimbursement process. > > Yes, yes and yes, it has been too long, much too long before we reimburse > your travel expenses. I am very sorry for this. The story > is rather unusual. In short, there are quite a few people who haven’t > received any money back for their trip to Poland in 2008 while there > was more than enough money in the bank in Poland. An almost incredible > sequence of events resulted in the delays we’re facing now — and still are > at the moment of writing this message. > > But, after months of pushing hard and waiting and exchanging emails and > trying to find out what was going on and why and when the money would be > available to finally reimburse the participants of LGM 2008, we are now > almost sure we’re going to see this money one day and this is why we start > the process. > > So. > > For the few people who haven’t yet received their reimbursement for LGM 2008 > Wroclaw, please file yourself in the link below. We will match your info > with the one we already have on file. This is needed because I want to make > sure we’re not missing anybody. So please file yourself in. Please make sure > to check the appropriate LGM year. > > http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009/reimbursement.php > > > LGMers of 2009 in Montreal are asked to do the same. If you were a > participant at both meetings and are seeking a reimbursement for both trips, > please file a second request for 2009, checking the appropriate LGM box. > > The gathering of the info will end within THE NEXT THREE WEEKS, ON FRIDAY > FEB. 19, 2010. > > According to the info we have, the budget for 2008 will be enough to cover > that year's travel expenses and there will be money remaining from that LGM > that we can use for the expenses of 2009. > > For 2009, we don’t know YET how much money we have but we will soon find > out. > > The rule is the same as previously. > > *Who qualifies :* Developers or presenters who have attended LGM and who are > officially entitled by each team’s leader(s) or who were invited to talk at > LGM by the organisers and who have not been sponsored by other means to > travel to LGM. > > *What we reimburse : *We aim at reimbursing in full the travel trip, that is > the transportation only, plane, bus, train, fuel, upon receipt of the proof > of purchase of your ticket. We need to first find out the total amount we > are asked to reimburse. If there is enough money, we reimburse 100%, if not, > then we’ll reimburse proportionally to the money we have. If we have more > money, the remainder is bumped into the next LGM budget. So far, we’ve been > lucky enough to be able to reimburse 100% of the submitted expenses. So > let’s hope it’s going to be the same for 2009. > > Thanks for filing yourself in quickly so we can proceed as soon as we get > the money from Poland. If you have any question, don’t hesitate to write to > me. > > Louis > -- > Louis Desjardins > Organisateur principal / Main organiser > Libre Graphics Meeting 2009 - Montréal 6-9 mai 2009 > www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2009 > +1 514 994 9351 (cell phone) > +1 514 934 1353 ext. 121 (office phone) > HAE / EDT GMT -5 > > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create > >
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