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Re: [Debconf-team] Sponsorship wording and requirements (was: Re: Special sponsorship)



On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:32:42AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 21/07/11 at 04:56 -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote:
> > I'd certainly be curious to hear more about the logistics of how Canonical does
> > that for UDS. Is Canonical's travel agency also used for attendees who are not
> > asking Canonical to pay for their travel? How does the process work for whoever
> > uses the designated agency, and what benefits come from that arrangement?

> I've only used the travel agency once.  It was very simple. I used an
> online search engine to decide on the flights I wanted to take, sent an
> email to the travel agency, and got the electronic tickets back. The
> main benefit is that there's no need to pay the travel costs myself and
> wait for reimbursement. I assume that from Canonical's POV, it also
> makes thing simpler since it's likely that there's only one large bill
> from the travel agency to handle.

FWIW, corporate travel agencies also bring rather steep per-booking fees
(it's how they stay in business, after all), so there's a tradeoff to be
evaluated there.

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