[Budget-devel] [fedora-budget] 01/01: Update Flock Funding guide

This is an automated email from the git hooks/post-receive script. bex pushed a commit to branch master in repository fedora-budget. commit 889dd9db19ae7dac3f48fe7352ac6630a089c47f Author: Brian (bex) Exelbierd <bex(a)pobox.com&gt; Date: Mon Jul 2 11:00:59 2018 +0200 Update Flock Funding guide --- docs/flock_funding_faq.adoc | 15 +++++---------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/flock_funding_faq.adoc b/docs/flock_funding_faq.adoc index 4520baa..9dd68bf 100644 --- a/docs/flock_funding_faq.adoc +++ b/docs/flock_funding_faq.adoc @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -Flock 2017 Funding FAQ +Flock 2018 Funding FAQ ====================== -Below are some notes and FAQs for the Flock 2017 funding process. They are published here as they may be adapted for future years or budget situations. +Below are some notes and FAQs for the Flock 2018 funding process. They are published here as they may be adapted for future years or budget situations. How does the copay work? ------------------------ -When you registered for Flock, if you asked for funding for your travel, you were asked if you could pay anything toward the travel. This amount, called a copay, was specified as either a percentage of your estimated costs or as an exact dollar amount. +When you registered for Flock, if you asked for funding for your travel, you were asked if you could pay anything toward the travel. This amount, called a copay, was specified as a dollar amount. -When the funding committee makes their calculations and determines funding offers, the amount you are asked to pay is considered from the copay. The copay is translated to dollars at that moment (if it wasn't an exact amount already) to give it specificity. This allows us to all have a conversation about exactly how much you are offering to contribute to cover your travel costs. +When the funding committee makes their calculations and determines funding offers, the amount you are asked to pay is considered from the copay. This is used to offset some of your travel costs and allows the committee to offer more funding to more attendees. Should I book my own tickets and hotel? --------------------------------------- @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ If you are receving full or partial funding from Flock for your travel do not bo What happens if my travel gets more expensive after I request funding? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -Typically, this situation occurs because airfare goes up in cost. In these situations the Flock funding committee representative will have a direct conversation with you about the situation. Our goal is to try to hold your contribution constant. This means, for example, that if you said you would contribute 30% of your travel costs when the total estimated cost was $2000, we assume you meant that you would contribute $600. If your costs increase to $3000 we don't automatically assume [...] +Typically, this situation occurs because airfare goes up in cost. In these situations the Flock funding committee representative will have a direct conversation with you about the situation. Our goal is to try to find a way to ensure we can still fund your attendance, even if that means increasing your funding offer or working with you on alternatives that reduce costs. It is a conversation, not an algorithm. What we will do is have a conversation to try and find alternatives to the increases and to get creative about how we can solve the situation. In some cases we may share the cost of an overage between Fedora and the traveler. In some cases Fedora will pay the entire cost of the overage and in others the traveler will. There is no single answer and each case is treated individually. For small increases we will typically find some money in the system to pay for it. @@ -32,11 +32,6 @@ What are the next steps when you receive funding? Each funding offer will describe the next steps for your situation. Typically, you will be asked to complete forms to begin the process of booking airfare and to create a visa letter. Hotels and other items are typically booked directly by the organizers and need no more input from you. -For Flock 2017, hotel funded attendees are being sent two questions to reply directly to by email: - -1. What is your expected date of arrival? -2. Solely for the purposes of roommate assignment, what is your gender? - What does a complete funding process looks like? ------------------------------------------------ -- To stop receiving notification emails like this one, please contact the administrator of this repository.