Hi, Adam
I believe this case has been exhaustively documented. It apparently
transpired before the current SLOBS was in place. It transpired before
Chris became
our Translation Community Manager. My understanding is that the
expenditure was approved by persons authorized to do so at the time. The
problem apparently arose because the payment needed to come from SFC and
that procedure was not followed.
I have voted for this motion but apparently even that vote didn't count
because I said approved instead of some more acceptable response.
I thank God, I never had to go through such a process to get
re-imbursement during my professional career.
Tony
On 05/18/2016 03:20 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
I find the practice of retroactively voting for funds to be highly
unprofessional, in all instances.
Nevertheless I am hereby voting in favor in this 1 instance, on the
hope that Translation Community Manager Chris Leonard will begin
improving the situation with a public blog going forward -- so
everyone knows what's happening and why.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Chris Leonard
<cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com <mailto:cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of
the event afterwards (in Spanish), which I have
Google-assisted-translated and will be posting (in both Spanish and
English) on the blog that I'm setting up for reporting on Translation
Community Manager activities.
Asking funded travelers for a post-travel write-up is a practice that
I think Sugar Labs SLOB should consider in all travel-funding
requests. It is a very common practice in science-related businesses,
when someone is sent to a conference on company time. This practice
provides a further return on investment. Not only are your ideas
shared with the audience at the destination by the traveler, but the
conference's ideas are reported back to the community providing the
funding.
cjl
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Walter Bender
<walter.ben...@gmail.com <mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> I realize that we never actually had a formal motion for this as
we got
> side-tracked by the i18n manager discussion (See [1]).
>
> Background: Edgar Quispe had requested funds to attend the
Traducción e
> interpretación en las lenguas originarias del Perú meeting in
Lima. The
> total cost of the trip was expected to be ~$200. In fact it came
to $168.88.
> The purpose of the visit was for Edgar to share his experience
with Aymara
> i18n for Sugar Labs with speakers of other indigenous languages
in the
> region. Note that this was pre-approved by Chris Leonard and
Walter Bender
> as appropriate and relevant to our i18n efforts under the Trip
Advisor grant
> and brought up for discussion at the 1 April SLOB meeting.
Edgar's report is
> at [2].
>
> Motion: to reimburse Edgar Quispe for expenses incurred
representing Sugar
> Labs at the Traducción e interpretación en las lenguas
originarias del Perú
> meeting in Lima. The cost is $168.88.
>
> -walter
>
> [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2016-March/017787.html
> [2]
>
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz5r4d6qh-WsZmF1cWQxemdGN0FmMzJnRjBZNEhKaEZWd1pB/view?usp=sharing
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Accounting at Software Freedom Conservancy
> <account...@sfconservancy.org <mailto:account...@sfconservancy.org>>
> Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:08 PM
> Subject: approval details for Quispe-Chambi trip expenses? (was:
Fwd:
> Solicitud de auspicio de pasajes)
> To: su...@sfconservancy.org <mailto:su...@sfconservancy.org>
>
>
> I'm submitting tonight to Conservancy internal approval process
Edgar
> Quispe Chambi's reimbursement request of US$161.88.
>
> However, I am unable to find SLOBs approval, so the
reimbursement may be
> rejected because of this. The information I have is:
>
> El mar. 18, 2016 5:52 AM, "Walter Bender"
<walter.ben...@gmail.com <mailto:walter.ben...@gmail.com>>
> escribió:
>>> Chris and I approved the travel. We will get formal approval
from the
>>> SLOB but there is no time to wait. Please keep your receipts
so that
>>> we can reimburse you. Sorry that there is no time to get you a
travel
>>> advance.
>
> I assume based on that statements and the one below that at sometime
> between March 18th and April 15th, there was a formal SLOBs
approval.
> Can someone send that along, please? A URL link to the SLOBs
minutes
> where it was approved are fine.
>
> [snip]
>
> --
> Bradley M. Kuhn
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Conservancy
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>
>
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> Walter Bender
> Sugar Labs
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