Re: Travel Subsidy Policy

[Pockey Lam <pockey beijinglug org>]

I think it's a good idea! +1

On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 17:35 +0800, Emily Chen wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> Sponsor our speaker is very import to make Summit more valuable and
> success. We have save some money from Summit 2008, I would like to use
> $5000 to sponsor our speakers. Since we don't have a big money, we
> should think about use the money wisely and carefully. 
> 
> The general idea is sponsor speakers' flights, we will try to cover
> most of their flights. So for people come from Asia country, we plan
> to sponsor $400, for people come from US, European or other country
> far away from Asia, we can sponsor $1000. Since we only have $5000, we
> can distribute the money in below ways: 
> 1) 1 * $1000, 10 * $400
> 2) 2 * $1000, 7 * $400 
> 
> This is a initial idea, I would like to hear more member's opinion
> about it. 
> 
> After we set the travel subsidy policy, we should announce it on our
> website and mail list to call for more speakers. 
> 
> I also attached a format of travel subsidy we used last year. 
> 
> Comments? Thoughts? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> -Emily 
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