<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On 30 Jan 2009, at 02:36, Gregory Meyer wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="Ih2E3d"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Mark Kretschmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kretschmann@kde.org" target="_blank">kretschmann@kde.org</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br> * Further on we went to a dinner with Aaron Seigo, Alexandra Leisse<br> from Nokia, the president of the FSFE, and others. We did have food<br> and good conversations about social and technical issues surrounding<br> KDE, Amarok, and Free Software in general. I'm asking the treasurer of<br> Amarok for reimbursement of the costs of this dinner, as I consider it<br> a business dinner and important for the project (this cost is<br> moderate).<br> </blockquote></div><br></div>I personally have no philosophical problem with stuff like this, it is a big part of creating goodwill and cooperation, as well as cultivate relationships that will prove handy for technical matters. But here's where I always have some trouble, and not specifically with Mark. As custodian of funds, I don't think I should necessarily approve any disbursements. Only carry them out based on someone else's approval. This is just good business practice and it isn't about not trusting anyone in particular, and as I said I think this is legitimate for reimbursement.<font color="#888888"><br></font></div></blockquote><br></div><div>I understand the difficultly. This is the reason that Casey and I would like to ask for some reimbursement for Camp KDE, but are waiting for the board to be created before asking. We do not wish to put you again into a position of deciding who gets the money. As it is a matter of a week and a half or so until the board is complete, I don't see the big problem (for me) in waiting.</div><div><br></div><div>So, if you prefer, this could be dealt with by the to-be-created board in 10 or so days.</div><div><br></div><div>leo</div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---</div><div>Leo Franchi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>(650) 704 3680</div><div>Tufts University 2010 </div><div><br></div><div><a href="mailto:lfranchi@kde.org">lfranchi@kde.org</a></div><div><a href="mailto:leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu">leonardo.franchi@tufts.edu</a></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>