Hello all, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) escreveu isso aí: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11-12-2008 12:13, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Michael Schultheiss > > <schultmc@debian.org> wrote: > >> Margarita Manterola wrote: > >>> Rather they were in the America lot, which should have been covered by > >>> SPI long ago. Hasn't it been done? > >> The only people I'm aware of that were in the SPI lot were the 4 US > >> attendees being reimbursed. If this is not the case, please e-mail me > >> at treasurer@spi-inc.org. > > > > So, this has obviously been a communication problem. All the people > > from the Americas (as in the whole continent, not just the US) should > > have been paid with the money at SPI. > > > > Jörg, can you please send the names, amounts and account info to > > treasurer@spi-inc.org? > > Be aware that for Brazil it doesn't work quite like that. If > somebody got an international transfer in an individual account, they > will have to pay taxes (big painful taxes, in some cases close to 40%). > > At least, for Brazil, one of the best solutions would be to > check the amount that needs to be reimbursed, check the Brazilian pool > of Debian and DebConf money, if it is enough (and probably it is not) > than OK (but we will need to start thinking about get more money in > Brazilian pool for next years). If it is not enough, SPI could transfer > the money to ASL.org and then we took care of reimbursing people inside > Brazil. I can check the "pool" if you want. and of course, I can help > with the process and bureocracy. > > I'm not sure how much will be the taxes for the SPI->ASL.org > transfer, I know that we have other alternatives, specially if somebody > is coming to Brazil and could bring the money in cash (or traveler's > check) so we can exchange it here and make the deposit without any > taxes. > > I know that while Josh Berkus were SPI treasurer, he was > looking into alternatives to get money inside Brazil, because > PostgreSQL-BR is also using ASL.org to handle its assets. I'm cc:ing > Josh (he may help) and other relevant people to help in the Brazilian > case. We have something like PayPal here, but I'm unsure if it will > work for SPI. > > All in all, we should at least send an statement about the > actual status of what's going on with the reimbursement process for > the affected people. It would ne nice if we could get some news about the status of this as soon as possible. I personally have a big hole in my personal finances that desperately needs to be filled, and I guess the other people who are waiting for the reimbursement have their own. I am a former member of the ASL.org board, so I could help there if needed to speed up things for the doomed Brazilians. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@softwarelivre.org> http://people.softwarelivre.org/~terceiro/ GnuPG ID: 0F9CB28F
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