From rlpowell@digitalkingdom.org Tue Mar 10 13:35:28 2009 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list llg-board); Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rlpowell by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lh8ff-0003cj-DQ for llg-board@lojban.org; Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:35:26 -0700 From: Robin Lee Powell To: llg-board@lojban.org Subject: [llg-board] Re: Spending money on getting people to penguicon. Message-ID: <20090310203526.GM11968@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=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-archive-position: 486 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 Can we take that as a yes vote? :) -Robin On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:39:14PM -0500, Matt Arnold wrote: > I'm so thrilled to see this! Let me know if you have specific > questions for me. As you know, until May I'll be over here, > swamped with running the best omni-geek convention ever (IMHO), > and trying to hold it together with chewing gum and bailing wire > sometimes. But, if you need me for anything, please do ask. > > -Eppcott > > On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, 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. > > > > 2. If we receive a donation with the specific intent to support travel > >   costs, the secretary/treasurer is authorized to spend that donation > >   as well, even if the total amount spent on Logfest travel exceeds > >   $1000. > > > > Note that this is only intended to cover Logfest 2009. But if this turns out to be successful (and book sales don't tank!) we'll be able to do this every year, and still have plenty of cash left over for future projects. > > > > -- > > Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/ > > I know, I know.  I could write a whole book about procrastination, but > > who has the time?    -- Mark Shoulson > > > > > > > > hank > > -- 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/