Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-18 Thread Jameson Quinn
I was just about to write a guest post edit...@olpcnews.com for OLPCNewshttp://www.olpcnews.com/contribute.htmlasking for (tax deductible) contributions towards the travel scholarship fund for XOCamp. But when I asked on IRC if anybody had any good photos of Sugarcamp to include, they told me to

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-18 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: I was just about to write a guest post for OLPCNews asking for (tax deductible) contributions towards the travel scholarship fund for XOCamp. But when I asked on IRC if anybody had any good photos of Sugarcamp to

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-18 Thread Samuel Klein
Please don't wait. Draft the post, and point to [[sugar:XOCamp 2]] where I'll put the details. SJ On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Jameson Quinn jameson.qu...@gmail.com wrote: I was just about to write a guest post for OLPCNews asking for (tax deductible) contributions towards the travel

[IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-15 Thread Jameson Quinn
It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under a month now. Those of us who'd like to come from far away would love to know whether we can get some financial support for our journey. However, the relevant wiki page http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOcamp_2/Fundraising is somewhat

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-15 Thread Jameson Quinn
OK. It seems that Sugar Labs is willing to receive donationshttp://sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Donateto the travel fund. That would make such donations *tax-deductible*. I also got a couple of +1's to my 50/50 disbursement plan: half the money split equally, half of it split proportionally to

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-15 Thread Jameson Quinn
As for a mechanism for distribution, I propose the following. 50% of the money would be divided equally between applicants, and 50% would be divided proportional to any remaining travel costs. I would just pay all travel costs and food and be done with it, and see about some sort of

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under a month now. Those of us who'd like to come from far away would love to know whether we can get some financial

Re: [IAEP] XOCamp fundraising (and, please sign up to donate)

2008-12-15 Thread Edward Cherlin
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 7:51 PM, Jonas Smedegaard d...@jones.dk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 04:19:54PM -0600, Jameson Quinn wrote: It's getting to be time to buy tickets for XOCamp 2, which is in under a month now. Those of us who'd like to come