Re: Minutes of the Board meeting of March 25th, 2014

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Sindhu S <sindhus live in> wrote:
> > The difference between your situation and Diego is that Diego isn't going
> > anywhere and is out of money.
>
> I honestly *needed* 130 USD on the upcoming berlin hackfest but I was told
> the sponsorship is to *help* and not to cover everything. I had to borrow it
> from someone and now I in debt. Is my reason not good enough for a 130 USD
> more?

Sorry, I didn't know your situation.

> >  The second difference is that Diego only applied for the visa because I
> > asked him to come to the west coast hackfest.  So it wasn't even his idea or
> > his initiative but mine.  That's why it was looked at as a special case.
>
> I did *not* apply to come to Docs Hackfest, Kat told me to. She was my
> mentor then. I then applied for sponsorship after she instructed me to do
> so. I was contributing to GNOME 2 months then, I had no idea about sponsored
> events.  Why wasn't I special case?

I don't know.  I didn't know your situation, I only what progression
of events with mine.  I felt strongly about it and if board had not
approved the expenses I was willing to do it out of my own pocket. My
other argument for the board was Diego was a long time contributor who
had put a lot of time into GNOME sometimes at the expense of school,
also a former board member, and a number of other positions.

I think your situation is similar although for different reasons.  I
will ask the board on whether we can retroactively look at your visa
processing situation.  It depends on how many of those want it and
what money we have and so forth.


> All I ask of the board is not to bend rules. Whatever revision on the
> reimbursement policy, please bring it in force *first* and then entertain
> cases that occur once the policy is in working, not before. It is unfair to
> me and to everyone who lost money due to visa rejections.

You make a good point and in our next board meeting I'll bring this up.

sri