On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <s...@ramkrishna.me>wrote: > > The original plan was that Diego was going to pay for the visa processing > and the foundation was going to pay for the ticket. Unfortunately, he was > unable to get a visa and was out a significant amount of money and had > asked if the board would pay for the visa application in lieu of the plane > ticket. Meaning if we were already going to pay for a larger sum of money > anyway it should be OK to pay for the smaller amount. > My approved sponsorship was for 1000+ USD if I remember correctly. I spent 73 USD on visa fees and I spent 306 USD on flights reaching the Embassy. How does my expenses exceed the sponsorship amount? This was all clearly mentioned on the thread where I asked for reimbursement too.
> 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? > 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? 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.
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