[Sugar-devel] [SLOBS] [SLOB] another motion (Quispe trip to Translation Summit)

[Tony Anderson]

Hi, Adam

I believe this case has been exhaustively documented. It apparently 
transpired before the current SLOBS was in place. It transpired before 
Chris became
our Translation Community Manager. My understanding is that the 
expenditure was approved by persons authorized to do so at the time. The 
problem apparently arose because the payment needed to come from SFC and 
that procedure was not followed.

I have voted for this motion but apparently even that vote didn't count 
because I said approved instead of some more acceptable response.

I thank God, I never had to go through such a process to get 
re-imbursement during my professional career.

Tony

On 05/18/2016 03:20 PM, Adam Holt wrote:
> I find the practice of retroactively voting for funds to be highly 
> unprofessional, in all instances.
>
> Nevertheless I am hereby voting in favor in this 1 instance, on the 
> hope that Translation Community Manager Chris Leonard will begin 
> improving the situation with a public blog going forward -- so 
> everyone knows what's happening and why.
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Chris Leonard 
> <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com <mailto:cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I would note that, as requested, Edgar provided a brief write-up of
>     the event afterwards (in Spanish), which I have
>     Google-assisted-translated and will be posting (in both Spanish and
>     English) on the blog that I'm setting up for reporting on Translation
>     Community Manager activities.
>
>     Asking funded travelers for a post-travel write-up is a practice that
>     I think Sugar Labs SLOB should consider in all travel-funding
>     requests.  It is a very common practice in science-related businesses,
>     when someone is sent to a conference on company time. This practice
>     provides a further return on investment.  Not only are your ideas
>     shared with the audience at the destination by the traveler, but the
>     conference's ideas are reported back to the community providing the
>     funding.
>
>     cjl
>
>     On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Walter Bender
>     <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I realize that we never actually had a formal motion for this as
>     we got
>     > side-tracked by the i18n manager discussion (See [1]).
>     >
>     > Background: Edgar Quispe had requested funds to attend the
>     Traducción e
>     > interpretación en las lenguas originarias del Perú meeting in
>     Lima. The
>     > total cost of the trip was expected to be ~$200. In fact it came
>     to $168.88.
>     > The purpose of the visit was for Edgar to share his experience
>     with Aymara
>     > i18n for Sugar Labs with speakers of other indigenous languages
>     in the
>     > region. Note that this was pre-approved by Chris Leonard and
>     Walter Bender
>     > as appropriate and relevant to our i18n efforts under the Trip
>     Advisor grant
>     > and brought up for discussion at the 1 April SLOB meeting.
>     Edgar's report is
>     > at [2].
>     >
>     > Motion: to reimburse Edgar Quispe for expenses incurred
>     representing Sugar
>     > Labs at the Traducción e interpretación en las lenguas
>     originarias del Perú
>     > meeting in Lima. The cost is $168.88.
>     >
>     > -walter
>     >
>     > [1] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2016-March/017787.html
>     > [2]
>     >
>     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz5r4d6qh-WsZmF1cWQxemdGN0FmMzJnRjBZNEhKaEZWd1pB/view?usp=sharing
>     >
>     > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>     > From: Accounting at Software Freedom Conservancy
>     > <accounting at sfconservancy.org <mailto:accounting at sfconservancy.org>>
>     > Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 8:08 PM
>     > Subject: approval details for Quispe-Chambi trip expenses? (was:
>     Fwd:
>     > Solicitud de auspicio de pasajes)
>     > To: sugar at sfconservancy.org <mailto:sugar at sfconservancy.org>
>     >
>     >
>     > I'm submitting tonight to Conservancy internal approval process
>     Edgar
>     > Quispe Chambi's reimbursement request of US$161.88.
>     >
>     > However, I am unable to find SLOBs approval, so the
>     reimbursement may be
>     > rejected because of this.  The information I have is:
>     >
>     > El mar. 18, 2016 5:52 AM, "Walter Bender"
>     <walter.bender at gmail.com <mailto:walter.bender at gmail.com>>
>     > escribió:
>     >>> Chris and I approved the travel. We will get formal approval
>     from the
>     >>> SLOB but there is no time to wait. Please keep your receipts
>     so that
>     >>> we can reimburse you. Sorry that there is no time to get you a
>     travel
>     >>> advance.
>     >
>     > I assume based on that statements and the one below that at sometime
>     > between March 18th and April 15th, there was a formal SLOBs
>     approval.
>     > Can someone send that along, please?  A URL link to the SLOBs
>     minutes
>     > where it was approved are fine.
>     >
>     > [snip]
>     >
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>     > Walter Bender
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