From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 10 13:35:10 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh8fO-0003bC-L7 for llg-board@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:10 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:10 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090310203510.GL11968@digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: llg-board@lojban.org References: <20090305191021.GE27391@digitalkingdom.org> <20090305212439.GN7405@nvg.org> <20090310192537.GS7405@nvg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090310192537.GS7405@nvg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 485 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: llg-board-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Precedence: bulk Reply-to: llg-board@lojban.org X-list: llg-board On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 08:25:37PM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 10:24:40PM +0100, Arnt Richard Johansen wrote: > > 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 have just talked over our financial situation a bit with Robin > on IRC. Turns out our balance is at $5500, and we make about $300 > per quarter. > > With that in mind, I move the following: > > 1. To authorize the secretary/treasurer to spend up to $1000 of > LLG funds, at his discretion, to defray transport costs for people > who could otherwise not afford to go to Logfest 2009. This > financial support should not exceed $300 per person. Friendly ammendment: "Money may also be used, up to the aforestated limits, to pay for a shared room for Lojbanists." -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/