Re: [guadec-list] Did You see this on the board meeting agenda?

[Dave Neary <dneary free fr>]

Quim Gil wrote:
> Like Anne suggests, I'm also for a wide call now in order to estimate
> sooner the needs and have more time to deal with them. Also to save
> money all of us: the sooner we book the cheaper the prices are, so wit
> he same resources we can help more people.

Can we have an estimate of the basic costs first, please? We can decide 
how much we'd like to spend on getting people to the conference later. 
Step one is knowing how much facilities, infrastructure and manpower 
will be costing us.

> We need to have something like a checklist to assist us approving
> sponsorship offers i.e.:
>
> - Willing to help.
> - Proposing to run a session.
> - GNOME Foundation member.
> - Active in GNOME projects.
> - Participant in previous years.
> - Resident in regions such as Eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America,
> non-hitech Asia...

In the past, the question has been a judgement call. We have generally 
covered all legitimate subsidy requests, as far as I know. The easiest 
way to decide if a request is legitimate is to ask the person what they 
do in the community, and ask for a reference.

> About visas, Span has no difference with the rest of EU-Schengen
> countries as far as I know. I think there are no special restrictions
> made by Spain only.

All Schengen countries apply their own rules WRT non-Schengen travellers.

Cheers,
Dave.

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David Neary
bolsh gimp org