Hi Stormy, Nice work!
Stormy Peters wrote: > == Travel Policy Proposal == > > Travel reimbursement policy proposal. Currently, the GNOME Foundation's > general policy is to reimburse travel and lodging. It has been proposed > to have the sponsored travelers pay some of the costs. By doing so, > people would be encouraged to spend money wisely and it would enable us > to fund more people. Exceptions could always be made on a case by case > basis (like maybe for students) or on an event basis (like for a > particular hackfest.) > > Current policy: Transportation and lodging only. > > Proposed policy: Total transportation and lodging minus €200 or 15% > (which ever is greater.) The amount to be agreed on before hand between > the travel committee and the traveler. Documented on the application form. The principle of a €200 participation when the foundation has been sollicited seems like a good one to me. The foundation should have as its goal to be an enabler for as many people as possible, and making foundation funding a travel subsidy rather than covering 100% of expenses seems like a good idea for me. Of course, this is when someone asks the foundation to pay for their ticket - and nothing prevents the board from waiving some of this and paying on a need basis, or covering expenses in situations where the foundation is specifically asking someone to travel (if they're a key person for a hackfest, or if they're traveling at our behest to speak at a conference or organise a stand). Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member [email protected] _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
