[IAEP] Venoumous FUD by Sugar Labs project founder

[Sebastian Silva]

Hi Sugar Community,
I came across the following comment on the public #sugar channel on
Freenode, with regard to my request for 200USD airfare Bogota-Medellín
to attend an event:

"<bernie> walterbender: who is taking care of approving reimbursement
requests these days?
 walterbender: for SL, i mean
<walterbender> I suppose you...
 this request is pretty bogus though
 it is a sales call
 he is trying to sell the work that Peru is paying him big bucks for
 nothing wrong with that, but SL shouldn't be paying for it"

I take great offense from these comments.

First of all this is NOT a sales call, we are not going to sell anything
to the deployment but trying to recruit some help with testing and some
users for the community led Hexoquinasa Deployment Platform.

I would like to ask Walter to please stop spreading FUD about the
perfectly transparent process we've been spearheading because the
venomous tongue from the project founder is hurting our ability to
operate.

For your information, in accordance to the "Required Resources" [1] the
up-to-date document which is published from the Project wiki and has
been shared multiple times in the lists, to the date, 1387 US$ has been
received from the Peru deployment, after a year of work.

http://tinyurl.com/hx-financial-documentation

So I will take one day as a volunteer to bring a significant software
update to an important deployment which can potentially help us with the
quality testing that is required, and for this require a 200USD ticket.

We've had patience in the past but Walter's attitude should be vetted as
unacceptable by the community.

Regards,
Sebastian


On jue, 2012-11-08 at 14:42 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> Hi Sugar Labs Oversight Board,
> I've submitted funding request ticket 4174 for fast approval by Bernie.
> He seems to think he is no longer responsible for quick approval process
> and that now Robert Fadel would be.
> 
> Regardless I would appreciate if you could +1 the proposal ASAP as the
> airfare is time sensitive.
> 
> A clarification on who is empowered to approve minor expenses would be
> good so that the documentation [1] might be updated.
> 
> [1] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance#How_to_fill_out_a_request
> 
> Thanks in advance for your attention,
> Sebastian
> 
> Ticket is at http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4174
> 
> On jue, 2012-11-08 at 12:44 -0500, Sebastian Silva wrote:
> > Hi Bernie,
> > I'm filing a new fundraising request [1] for a ticket Bogotá-Medellín to
> > attend the "Desayuno por la Educación" event (invitation attached).
> > 
> > [1] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4174
> > 
> > Please find more details in the bug request.
> > 
> > Hopefully the request can be approved.
> > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
> > [Fwd: Invitación. Desayuno por la educación.]
> > MHTML Document attachment, "Forwarded message - Invitación. Desayuno
> > por la educación."
> > > -------- Forwarded Message --------
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> > > Reply-to: Fundación Marina Orth <contactus at fundaorth.org>
> > > To: sebastian at somosazucar.org
> > > Subject: Invitación. Desayuno por la educación.
> > > Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:46:26 +0000
> > > 
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> > >                                            educación'
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