On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 16:29 +0000, Neil McGovern wrote: > Hia, > > On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 12:22 +0100, Benjamin Berg wrote: > > How much spending are you expecting to be done through the travel > > policy for the next financial year and in which items in the budget > > is this represented? > > > > We have $40,000 budgetted for the travel committee, and that is in the > Events line. The other additional one in there is $3k for "GNOME > events" which covers things like release party reimburements, or other > small events which are run.
I mean spending through the travel policy, not spending by the travel committee. As I understand it those are entirely separate processes and therefore I would expect separate items in the budget for this. I would find it rather odd if your travel as ED comes out of the TC budget. > Note, this 40k doesn't cover GUADEC travel as I understand it, that > falls under the GUADEC budget line. I am personally aware that the TC also gets budget indirectly through the conferences and internships. Benjamin > > PS: Other than that, I noticed: > > * Limit for flights is >$1,650 in the summary but >$1800 in the text > > I believe that this is as it's for 1650 for the flight portion, and > 1800 total. The actual change that got introduced at conservancy is: > https://k.sfconservancy.org/policies/changeset/9569a5bbae38cffa181caa9d > f9cd91fcd3169e8e Ah, so total vs. airfare only. It stuck out to me as the domestic travel numbers match exactly. > > * Text says "Conservancy" (instead of Foundation?) in one place > > Nice catch, thanks! > > As a bit of background, we're basically copying Conservancy's travel > policy here. They've done the research on what's legal for a 501(c)(3) > to do, and have sensible limits in place. It saves us rolling our own > as well.
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