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On 2010/03/02, at 16:02, Uros Nedic <urosn at live.com> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 01:23:54 -0300 > From: hsaltiel at gmail.com > To: mary.dopart at oracle.com > CC: tina.weiss at oracle.com; marina.neumann at oracle.com; jackie.rose at > oracle.com > ; advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org; osug-leaders at opensolaris.org; > marcia.spencer at oracle.com > ; bambi.staveley at oracle.com > Subject: Re: [osug-leaders] Upcoming Tech Days - India and Russia > > Hi, Mary! > > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Mary Dopart <mary.dopart at oracle.com> > wrote: > All, > (...) > > If you plan to attend one of the events, we hope you will make time > to meet with members of the users group team! Please send mail to > them to set up a time to meet them - they will reply to your mail > and suggest at time to meet and will also indicate the name of the > Oracle booth for the meeting! We do hope you will take time to join > the team and discuss your issues, concerns and plans for your group! > Send mail to > nichole.scott at sun.com > bambi.staveley at oracle.com > jackie.rose at oracle.com > mary.dopart at oracle.com > > > Are you planing any other way to meet us, like conference calls, or > video conference? > For some of us (I'm talking for people like us, in Argentina, who > have a currency issue) it's impossible to travel to one of this > countries, because the travel cost represents, sometimes, two entire > salaries. > > During the last few weeks we received many requests from leaders to > secure travel subsidies to attend the upcoming events. We > understand that travel subsidies may have been available in the > past, but Oracle's corporate policy does not allow us to provide > subsidies for customers or users group leader to travel to an event. > > I remember from my four years working at Oracle Argentina a rule > like this, because of a "ethics and gift limits" policy. I > understand this, and support the idea of having a gift limit. As you > can see, I studied the Oracle ethics manual (yeah!), and I'm > convinced about its value :-) . > Don't understand why user group leaders cannot have this benefit. > It's like inviting somebody to give a talk to my company, and > avoiding to pay his/her flight. > If you check the behaviour of other Open Source communities around > the world, the normal behaviour is to pay the travel when interested > in having somebody "at home". > I'm an active member of CaFeLUG (Capital Federal GNU/Linux Users > Group), and this is what we did when we received Richard Stallman, > Maddog Hall, and several other Open Source evangelists. > Knowing this, I understand there must be another way to have almost > the same level of communication with you, Nichole, Bambi and Jackie. > This is why I need to know (maybe more people are concerned about > this) how will you facilitate this, or if this policy will be > reviewed in some way. > > > We hope that if you are near the events, you will be able to attend > one of them. And we are committed to staying in touch with all on > this distribution list so you understand our plans and next steps > for the users groups! If you have questions please send them along > to us. > > Thank you for your support and participation! > > Regards, > Mary Lou Dopart > > > Best regards, > > Hern?n "HeCSa" Saltiel > AOSUG leader > CaFeLUG member > Verizon Business Project Manager > ITIL - PMP certified > > > > > _______________________________________________ > osug-leaders mailing list > osug-leaders at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/osug-leaders > > > > > -- > HeCSa > > > > I completely agree what Hernan said. > > Uros Nedic > > > > Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss Absolutely agree with you 2 :) +1 -masafumi -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20100302/17719f73/attachment-0001.html>
