On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:27, amachu techie wrote: > Hi all, > > Apart from the great Support Ubuntu is giving us, how are Loco Teams > meeting their expenses? > > Would like to hear from each one you how you manage expenses among your > self for your activities? >
The current members of the NebraskaTeam are financing projects out of our own pocket and passing the hat on a project by project basis. Our first project "Ubuntu Off The Shelf" is designed to continue over the long term, and can be funded a bit at a time. When it comes to a larger project, like a User's Conference or a BarCamp, we'll definitely seek sponsorship of local companies. > We would like adopt good procedures in our Team to manage our expenses. For > instance when the Edgy CDs arrived the Customs office charged us a good > deal of amount! This sounds like an excellent topic for a wiki page. "Best way to ship" should contain all the packaging and labelling instructions that help to minimize customs fees for your locality. > > Also we have to send the CDs to Ubuntu Lovers distributed across our State. It will probably *not* be appropriate for our team to establish itself as formal entity until we have many more members and many more programs. > > Awaiting your feedback? > > Jono, > > Any set of guidelines Ubuntu has put forth for Loco Teams to meet their > Local expenses? Please suggest.. > > Regards, > > Sri Ramadoss M, > Founder Ubuntu Tamil Team -- loco-contacts mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/loco-contacts
