On Feb 18, 10 21:45:07 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > * THIS IS ONLY MY RECOLLECTION FROM A TWO-MINUTE SCAN OF EMAIL. * > * DO NOT TAKE IT AS GOSPEL, DO NOT RELY UPON IT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. *
Thanks for dealing with this so quickly, Daniel! > As far as I can tell (and I've not looked hard, because I'd like to > escape the office early), XDS 2007 cost $US10k for the venue, around > $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke) As long as X.org has enough money I do not care too much about how much money is spent for helping people getting to the event. I think the 2007 event was a big success, so money well spent. That said, with the current funding we cannot do the same for another 10 years :-] > , and something like $US5k lost > to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and took our money) as well as > around $US5k that vanished into the Brazilian banking system, which > gives us $US45k for one conference. Jikes! I didn't know it was that much. Now thinking of it I do not remember what we used PayPal for... Anyway, I'm rather interested what the Brazilian bank mafia had to do with all this? I doubt anybody thought these scaming mails were for real and something to be worth investing?!? > If you feel this is unacceptable and are looking to assign blame, the > mail archives back me up that the entire thing was entirely my idea, and > every single costing and proposal came from myself. Nobody's gonna blame you, Daniel. You did a lot of the work back then, and I assume others wouldn't make the same mistakes, but different ones :--] I think the general feeling is that the events - well - happened, not a such big deal, but transparency is severely lacking. I'm writing in present tense, even though the clouds are already starting to lighten up. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[email protected]> __ __ __ Maxfeldstr. 5 / 90409 Nuernberg (_ | | (_ |__ [email protected] Phone +49-911-74053-715 __) |_| __) |__ R & D www.mshopf.de _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
