On 05/12/16 16:24, Giannis Konstantinidis wrote:

Dear Fedora Ambassadors,
we all know the Fedora Project has an extremely diverse community. Our contributors come from different backgrounds.

From time to time, regional communities sponsor contributors to travel either domestically or abroad to represent the project. The model being used is reimbursements, i.e. contributors need to pay for their expenses in advance and then await to receive their money back some time later. This is done for a variety of reasons. Reimbursements are processed exclusively via Paypal.

First of all, I understand that not everyone feels comfortable with paying for their expenses in advance and then awaiting to be reimbursed a month and a half later. Secondly, Paypal does not work in all countries - which can be very difficult for some people to receive payments.

Are you having any issues with Paypal in your country? If yes I would like to invite you to visit the following wiki page[0], describe the problem and suggest alternative solutions (If you have any in mind). Are you having any issues related to reimbursements? I encourage you to reach out to me and/or any other FAmSCo representative and report any problem, even anonymously.

We appreciate your input. Thanks very much.
-Giannis

PS: As I recall, this topic has been discussed several times in the past. No specific action was taken, however.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Reimbursements/Issues


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Hello,

I've seen this discussion in LATAM and in FLOCK and nothing happened afterwards. From what I know, the issues in LATAM are still on. From my particular side, I can't say there's a problem. I never received reimbursement from Fedora but as I'm living in Frankfurt my PayPal account works fine so far. I don't know how it is for other countries inside EMEA though.


Cheers,
Sylvia