[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-21 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:34:34AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:11, Carol Spears wrote: What qualifies you to represent The GIMP? excuse me, my last reply was fairly rude. this is what qualifies me to represent TheGIMP. i latched onto a project with a poor

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-21 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 08:24, Carol Spears wrote: On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:34:34AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:11, Carol Spears wrote: What qualifies you to represent The GIMP? excuse me, my last reply was fairly rude. this is what qualifies me to

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-21 Thread David Neary
Let me clarify a bit. Carol Spears wrote: to find out that 1) the trip was funded and 2) dsrogers went without a plan of what he would say or do there. i am simply unable to explain more than this. When I heard about the comdex thing, I assumed that there was finding from O'Reilly. The fact

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-21 Thread David Neary
Hi, Sven Neumann wrote: FSF Europe, ORA, FlamingText GIMP and someone else I can't remember gave us money for the last conference, of which 400 euros remains. Apple also lent us some equipment. Please let me get things straight on the fundings for the GIMP Developers Conference this

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
How about we know what funding there is and how much gimp has to work with. Or skip all that and just show up somewhere and send the bill to dsrogers? Call it faith in misinformation. carol ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread David Neary
Carol Spears wrote: How about we know what funding there is and how much gimp has to work with. Or skip all that and just show up somewhere and send the bill to dsrogers? Call it faith in misinformation. As I said, I think that we will need someone to be the money face on the group.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, David Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I know that there is at least one prospective sponsor who has said he will put some money (perhaps 4 figures) towards the conference - a few more like that and we will not have problems paying travel expenses (depending, of course, on the location) -

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:23:47PM +0100, David Neary wrote: Carol Spears wrote: How about we know what funding there is and how much gimp has to work with. Or skip all that and just show up somewhere and send the bill to dsrogers? Call it faith in misinformation. I think that

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:56:17PM +0100, David Neary wrote: Hi Carol, Carol Spears wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:23:47PM +0100, David Neary wrote: I think that we need an event before we go looking for money, though. as far as i am concerned, this event and all of the other

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread David Neary
Hi Carol, Carol Spears wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:23:47PM +0100, David Neary wrote: I think that we need an event before we go looking for money, though. as far as i am concerned, this event and all of the other ones suggested here have already occured. Perhaps I'm

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread David Neary
Hi Carol, I really missed the point of your last 2 mails, but here's the answers to your questions... Carol Spears wrote: My questions can all be answered very simply. How much money is there? There's lots of money. Every country makes their own. The European central bank makes billions of

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi Carol Carol Spears [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My questions can all be answered very simply. None of your questions make any sense (at least not to me). How much money is there? What money are you talking about? Who contributed it? ditto For what reason was it contributed? ditto

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 05:58:33PM +0100, David Neary wrote: Hi Carol, I really missed the point of your last 2 mails, but here's the answers to your questions... Carol Spears wrote: My questions can all be answered very simply. How much money is there? There's lots of money.

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread David Neary
Carol Spears wrote: the misinformation is from gimp.org. there was funding available to send someone to las vegas to represent gimp there. Any money that paid for someone to go to Vegas was payed by ORA (O'Reilly and Associates) as a result of their competition to send 6 open source projects

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
lets take a different approach. when you don't have the money to pay for the flight to represent the gimp at a conference or whatever the event, you won't be volunteering. i was unable to fund a flight to las vegas to represent TheGIMP; i tried to make myself available to dsrogers to help with

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:11, Carol Spears wrote: to find out that 1) the trip was funded and 2) dsrogers went without a plan of what he would say or do there. i am simply unable to explain more than this. We didn't know that the trip was funded before Dan arrived in Vegas. What makes you

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Manish Singh
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 03:11:03PM -0800, Carol Spears wrote: lets take a different approach. when you don't have the money to pay for the flight to represent the gimp at a conference or whatever the event, you won't be volunteering. i was unable to fund a flight to las vegas to represent

Re: [Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Who contributed it? FSF Europe, ORA, FlamingText GIMP and someone else I can't remember gave us money for the last conference, of which 400 euros remains. Apple also lent us some equipment. Please let me get things straight on the fundings for the GIMP Developers Conference this

[Gimp-developer] Re: GimpCon 2004

2003-11-20 Thread Carol Spears
On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:34:34AM +0100, Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 00:11, Carol Spears wrote: to find out that 1) the trip was funded and 2) dsrogers went without a plan of what he would say or do there. i am simply unable to explain more than this. We didn't