On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:18:47PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:52:22PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:45:07PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > As far as I can tell (and I've not looked hard, because I'd like to > > > escape the office early), XDS 2007 cost $US10k for the venue, around > > > $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke), and something like $US5k lost > > > to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and took our money) as well as > > > > This is actually interesting and it supports my feeling how finances > > are handled and why I have given up doing any accounting. > > > > But maybe I'm wrong and I only have this feeling because things work > > differently in the EU than in the US where an organization is able to > > to pocket ones money by making false claims. > > I'm pretty uncomfortable with the suggestion here. No, wait, very > uncomfortable. (Not to mention that if any misuse of funds _did_ go on > here, then it sucks to be me, because if that was the case, then I got > not a single cent from my complicity.)
Daniel, I read Egberts statement regarding pocketing money referring to PayPal, not you. Egbert may be able to clear that up, but my gess is this was the intended meaning. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
