Re: Travel Subsidy Policy

[Mario Behling <mb mariobehling de>]

Hi,

I agree, good idea. I would like to focus on Asian people or Western
contributors based in Asia. My experience is that people who have been
a while to Asia can also usually better adapt their talks to local
listeners (e.g. style of communication and simple English).

A) Ergo: I would say, lets announce that we support speakers with
travel subsidies of up to 400,- USD from Asia and up to 800,- USD from
outside.

B) Lets not say how much money we will put in. We might be able to put
in more even later and we might be able to support some people already
with less money. For example, we are talking to some contributors from
Cambodia. The bus ride costs just 12 USD from Phnom Penh. It is
already good to support them with 50 USD for the trip. How about we
announce that we support up to 40 speakers to apply for travel grants?

What do you think? My goal is to get as many people together here as possible.

Best,

Mario



On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Emily Chen <emilychen522 gmail com> 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
>