Hi Hilary, Sugar Labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy, and so travel funding is subject to the *Software Freedom Conservancy Travel and Reimbursable Expense Policy. <https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies?p=conservancy:policies.git;a=blob_plain;f=Travel/conservancy-travel-policy.txt;hb=HEAD>*
You can access the policy also via Sugar Labs Wiki Finance page at: https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance Regards and blessings, Laura V 2017-08-13 17:43 GMT-05:00 Hilary Naylor <hnay...@gmail.com>: > dear all, > Samson is now sponsored for the up-front expenses of his trip to GSoC > in the amount of $700. His actual expenses are closer to $900 if anyone > wants to co-sponsor. I understand that SFC is going to reimburse me around > $630 because that is the amount they allocated for local travel expenses. > > kind regards, > Hilary > --- > Hilary Naylor > OLPC-SF > > ---fwd--- > Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2017 09:10:50 -0400 > From: Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> > To: Lionel Laske <lio...@olpc-france.org> > Cc: iaep <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Sugar-dev Devel > <sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, "OLPC para usuarios, docentes, > voluntarios y administradores" <olpc-...@lists.laptop.org>, SLOBs > <sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, Tabitha Roder <tabi...@tabitha.net.nz > > > Subject: Re: [IAEP] [SLOBS] URGENT action needed > > Because Samson Goddy is our close friend and clearly should go to San > Francisco for GSoC, it is tempting to send him a personal loan. > > But for Sugar Labs to provide loans to our personal friends is a dangerous > precedent frought with moral and ethical hazards. > > As such, personally my conscience forces me to abstain from all such > matters. > > I strongly encourage others to provide Samson the $627.05 personal loan he > in fact does need, if Sugar Labs cannot. > > *It will make a gigantic difference, and you will have a friend for life in > Samson Goddy, who is likely to move forward accomplishing truly incredible > things in his life.* > --- > Hilary Naylor, Ph.D. > www.a2zed.us > Oakland CA > > _______________________________________________ > SLOBs mailing list > sl...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs > > -- Laura V. * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org* “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.” ~ Laura Victoria Happy Learning! #LearningByDoing #Projects4good #IDesignATSugarLabs #WeCanDoBetter
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