André Schnabel wrote: > > In fact, it was -probably- already too late, and I should have posted > > before (too busy, my fault). Since, I verified yesterday : the > > EducOOo (our non profit association) received less than 300 euros. > > The fact is, the npa received not enough to help me, so my > > participation is canceled. > > > > That's completely normal. > > Maybe to you - to me it seems rather unfair to many of the other > people who apllied for a slot. > > If your participation is bound to some restrictions, you could have > stated this much earlier. Remember that you even could have applied > for imbursements here at the Ooo project (from what I read, you did not). > Hi Andre,
well, I guess matters are a bit more complicated here. From past
years, it was quite customary to pay travel & accomodation for
volunteer contributors; in fact the conference submission site
mentioned as much. The mail announcing the actual _specifics_ of the
bursaries went out to the pleads list on Oct. 9th ("[project leads]
OOoCon 2009 Bursaries"), so I guess Eric attempting to raise
additional funds after that for 11 days & then warning publicly that
he won't come was quite timely.
> In preparation of the conference, you often complained, that the
> education project did not get enough attention. So - now the project got
> attention, the project lead got a session, people maybe prepared to
> have some chats with the education lead ... and now exactly this project
> lead find, ha cannot attent, because he was to late with looking for
> imburesements?
>
I guess the ones not being timely in this case were the people
deciding/announcing on the reimbursements. Travel/accomodation
usually gets noticeable more expensive even 6 weeks before ...
Cheers,
-- Thorsten
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