On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Diaa Radwan wrote:
> (a) No matter where you are in the world, we need scans of
receipts
> for the expenses that you have at the event. If we promise you a
> budget of $500 and you spend $500, but only have receipts for $400,
> then I end up in an awkward position where I either have to say NO to
> the last $100, or to reimburse it out of my own pocket. Please don't
> put me in that position.
Well, in Egypt and most African countries 500$ is more than enough to
host an event, specially here in Egypt as we seek for a place to host
us for free( I am speaking based on my experience with the Egyptian
GNU/Liunx activities), so the expense wouldn't reach 500$ anyway
unless there is rent for a place, we may pay shipping tariff for the
CDs and tshirst; it wouldn't also reach 500$. so reimbursement for
500$ or more is really generous, but it would be hard to claim. Having
the smallest reimbursable amount as 500$ would make it hard for
contributors/ambassadors. As 500$ is the average salary for junior
sysadmin in Egypt.
$500 was just a "random example" that I pulled out of my head. You can
replace that number with anything. The point is that we need receipts
that match the costs, whatever those costs are.
Is it possible to collect more than receipt and reimburse them once
to
more than ambassador(s) or for one ambassador for many events(,might
be in different quarters)? so that anyone have paid something can
claim it; without having problems.
I'm not sure what you mean, but my goal is to make things as easy on the
local ambassadors as possible.
> (d) In any countries using Euros, we try to do all our
reimbursements
> either through PayPal or to route them through Fedora EMEA e.V.
> Thanks for your attention and for all your hard work. If there are
> any questions, please post them to this thread.
What about middle east countries? most of them use US dollars as the
second currency and have no PayPal access, can we use the local
currency/US dollars, and convert the values to Euors ? or you mean
that reimbursement is allowed/possible for countries that uses Euros
as their local currency?
Now that Red Hat has an office in Dubai, we might have a much easier
time dealing with Middle East currencies directly. This is something I
will have to look into.
In any event, we can simply figure out the USD equivalent of whatever
the local currency is, so it isn't a big problem.
--Max