[IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] yet another motion regarding Samson's travel

[Caryl Bigenho]

Ed and I would love to host Samson in LA for a couple of days between Google and Boston. Kayak is showing the one way ticket at $111 at the time he can fly (evening). We will get that ticket for him if the rest of his trip is approved.
Caryl

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On Sep 24, 2017, at 8:15 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org<mailto:holt at laptop.org>> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 4:33 PM, Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com<mailto:lionel.laske at gmail.com>> wrote:

-1 for this motion.

Participation to the GSoC Summit is already a privilege. It's fair that Samson as a mentor could have opportunity to attend to it.
I don't see any advantage for SugarLabs on the Samson side trip, so there is no reason for SugarLabs to pay for it.

Lionel,

While I strongly sympathize (I work with Haitian teachers who don't find it funny that Samson appears willing to let substantially more than $500 disappear, far more than a year's salary for my educator colleagues in Haiti...)

Still let me still ask: what would you think if Samson approached this with a spirit of compromise, spending $1277.68+190 instead of the earlier desired 1920.82 (1730.82+190) or 2110.22 (1920.22+190) ?  In this fashion his 2 side trips would not cost Sugar Labs much at all:

$1,277.68 @ Emirates.com<http://Emirates.com> for https://goo.gl/flights/5WpL Lagos - San Francisco Oct 12/13; Boston - Lagos Oct 21/22
$190 Los Angeles - Boston Oct 15/16

Nobody appreciates a "planned emergency" like this, when Samson's side trips could easily have been mentioned in public earlier this summer, instead of forcing everyone to the brink like this with de facto high-pressure sales tactics.

But let's try to make the best of this obvious disaster and put that behind us.

If you agree, Samson might be wise to jump on this opportunity immediately instead of arguing for days over a trip that could Very Easily Go Down The Drain (as prices are now rising quickly, with Oct 12 only days away now).

In Context: the companies I've worked for across my career would * never * allow the purchase of intercontinental flights only ~16 days prior to travel like this, even if Samson's side trips had been mentioned forthrightly a priori (instead of forcing Sugar Labs to the brink, and costing us money with ever-rising flight costs...)

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