Hello, Sorry about the delayed reply (actually I had on my mind I had replied, but apparently it was a chat on irc with Terceiro...). Our account manager was on vacation. I just called her and she will have a summary of our account movements of 2008 along with the amount left in it by Monday. []s Pablo Em Ter, 20 Jan 2009, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) escreveu: | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- | Hash: SHA1 | | Do we have any updates regarding this? A lot of people is still | in the "dark" without knowing when it will happen and/or how... | :-( | | Other sponsored people from South America got the reimbursement? | | On 11-12-2008 19:06, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: | > 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. | - -- | Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) | "Debian. Freedom to code. Code to freedom!" | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- | Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) | Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org | | iEYEARECAAYFAkl1X24ACgkQCjAO0JDlykZw1ACgrI0LZgIGRYfzS5BlNRWZUhLd | Uh4An0hb4RA0P8oPuKUC/lfHEw36Ad1R | =rW5z | -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Pablo Lorenzzoni (Spectra) <spectra@debian.org> GnuPG: 0x268A084D at pgp.mit.edu/keyring.debian.org This message is protected by DoubleROT13 encryption Attempting to decode it violates the DMCA/WIPO acts
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