Hi,
Thorsten Behrens schrieb:
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.
So we seem to have different memories, what was "customary". As I
remember, last years conference was the first one to have a very
generous budget for travel & accomodation. This was explicitly mentioned
by the main sponsor when the application was sent in. The years before,
the reimbursements were much lower and always bound to "active community
members who really need the reimbursements".
But my memory might fail, as I never got full reimbursements for any of
the conferences I attended. Most of the time I payed the full costs
myself. (Maybe this makes me one of the evil stupid, who find OOo
Conferences interesting enough to go there on their own risk and costs :) ).
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 ...
Agreed - final rules for reimbursements were given very late. But this
does not mean, that you can expect to get reimbursements, as long as no
one told something different. Still I think, it is only honest to say
"I'll join the conference only if I get the reimbursements". This would
help to mak decisions and put some pressure on the conference team.
There is indeed another problem for the Conference Team: OOoCon never
had any budget assigned form the OOo project. We used to plan the
Conferences as self-sustaining (means every cost related to the
conference needs to be backed by dedicated sponsoring). You might
imagine, that it was harder to find sponsors this year than any other
before. Budgeting is actually a task of the council - so anybody who
is not fine with this, should raise this to the council. Or - much
better - apply for a council seat. You'll get the next chance some weeks
after the Conference ;)
Best,
André
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