Re: Travel Subsidy Policy

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Emily:

+1

I would just make sure to have people follow the GNOME Travel process,
have them sign the form and make sure that the GNOME Foundation gets
a copy of the signed form.  That will help facilitate making the money
saved last year available quickly.

Brian


> 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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