On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]> wrote:
> How many votes would it take to change the tagline of IAEP to “It’s An > Education Project (not a travel agency!)”? > I feel your pain. The volume of email relating to process issues of late has been overwhelming. It seems we could in large part remedy the situation by creating a new email list, shadow-slobs, which could be subscribed to by any community member who is interested in these sorts of topics and leave iaep to issues of pedagogy and sugar-devel to issues of software engineering. -walter > > > Martin > > (Not directed at Caryl personally - this whole thread comes off as pretty > far from SL’s mission to this observer. It should be internal IMHO.) > > On 24 Sep 2017, at 23:39, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ed and I would love to host Samson in LA for a couple of days between > Google and Boston. Kayak is showing the one way ticket at $111 at the time > he can fly (evening). We will get that ticket for him if the rest of his > trip is approved. > Caryl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 24, 2017, at 8:15 PM, Adam Holt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Lionel Laské <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> -1 for this motion. >> >> Participation to the GSoC Summit is already a privilege. It's fair that >> Samson as a mentor could have opportunity to attend to it. >> I don't see any advantage for SugarLabs on the Samson side trip, so there >> is no reason for SugarLabs to pay for it. >> > > Lionel, > > While I strongly sympathize (I work with Haitian teachers who don't find > it funny that Samson appears willing to let substantially more than $500 > disappear, far more than a year's salary for my educator colleagues in > Haiti...) > > Still let me still ask: what would you think if Samson approached this > with a spirit of compromise, spending $1277.68+190 instead of the earlier > desired 1920.82 (1730.82+190) or 2110.22 (1920.22+190) ? In this fashion > his 2 side trips would not cost Sugar Labs much at all: > > $1,277.68 @ Emirates.com for https://goo.gl/flights/5WpL Lagos - San > Francisco Oct 12/13; Boston - Lagos Oct 21/22 > $190 Los Angeles - Boston Oct 15/16 > > Nobody appreciates a "planned emergency" like this, when Samson's side > trips could easily have been mentioned in public earlier this summer, > instead of forcing everyone to the brink like this with de facto > high-pressure sales tactics. > > But let's try to make the best of this obvious disaster and put that > behind us. > > If you agree, Samson might be wise to jump on this opportunity immediately > instead of arguing for days over a trip that could Very Easily Go Down The > Drain (as prices are now rising quickly, with Oct 12 only days away now). > > In Context: the companies I've worked for across my career would * never * > allow the purchase of intercontinental flights only ~16 days prior to > travel like this, even if Samson's side trips had been mentioned > forthrightly a priori (instead of forcing Sugar Labs to the brink, and > costing us money with ever-rising flight costs...) > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org <http://www.sugarlabs.org>
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