From arj@nvg.ntnu.no Thu Mar 05 13:25:02 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:25:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no ([129.241.210.67]) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LfL3r-0002t4-E6 for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:25:02 -0800 Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (unknown [IPv6:2001:700:300:2000:2a0:c9ff:feab:76e2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sabre-wulf.nvg.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 421DF94766 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:24:41 +0100 (CET) Received: from hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id n25LOeYj014537 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:24:40 +0100 Received: (from arj@localhost) by hagbart.nvg.ntnu.no (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id n25LOeP6014536 for llg-board@lojban.org; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:24:40 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 22:24:40 +0100 From: Arnt Richard Johansen To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090305212439.GN7405@nvg.org> References: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-NVG-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-NVG-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: arj@nvg.ntnu.no X-Spam-Score: -0.0 X-Spam-Score-Int: 0 X-Spam-Bar: / X-archive-position: 474 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: arj@nvg.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 11:10:21AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I propose (not a motion yet; want to get people's feedback) that we > get these people to buy themselves tickets by whatever means, and > then we paypal them the cost, up to $NUM USD, perhaps $300 (which is > about the cost of a plane ticket on a discount airline through most > of the US these days). I think we might want to do things in the following order: 1. Decide how much we can afford to pay in Logfest subsidies per year, every year in the near future. I'll refer to this yearly sum as $BUDGET USD. 2. Allocate $NUM USD to a list of candidates (on a first-come, first serve basis), until $BUDGET USD is reached. I do think that this is a reasonable thing to spend money on, since these people will be fine ambassadors for Lojban among the wider audience at the conference. Yet, as Lojbab said, this will set a precedent, and we want to avoid a situation where we splurge on Logfest subsidies a few years on a row, until we have to stop doing it because the treasury is empty. That would be unfair to those future attendees who would otherwise benefit from it. -- Arnt Richard Johansen http://arj.nvg.org/ You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too.