Re: [Debconf-team] Having money at hand in DebConf in general
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:45:12 -0500
Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
Hi Gunnar,
> I'm sending this mail prompted by the sudden problem we are having due
> to having to send quotes (proformas, invoices, facturas or whatever)
> to FFIS before they can wire us any money to be spent in Nicaragua,
> and mainly because of the time each such transfer will take (and the
> money it will cost - AFAICT, there is a fixed bank fe per
> international transaction, and it is in our interest to keep the
> number of transactions as low as possible).
Yes there is a fixed bank fee, depending of the amount of money transfered and the bank. About the time, I asked to an accountant working in a NGO that receive money from Europe and he told me that it take one week for the money to come to .ni
>
> But not only we want to have as few transactions as possible - We need
> today (and we will badly need two weeks from now!) to have money
> available as we need it (of course, being committed to spend it
> correctly and getting proper invoices for every expense we make). We
> have to be able to approve money to be spent right away for any
> day-to-day issue we find.
Right, we need to have money here in Nicaragua, and of course we must spend this money in a proper way with the correct approval of DebConf.
>
> How has this been handled in past conferences? Is there a way a larger
> sum (more than what we have quotes/invoices for) can be transfered to
> ISIC, with us being responsible that it is completely accounted for?
I think DebConf chairs, ISIC and locals organizers can be responsible of record every cent we spend here so both SPI and FFIS will have all the receipts to support this money transfered to Nicaragua.
Regards,
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Norman García Aguilar <norman@riseup.net>
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