Surely there's a way to work out for sponsored attendees to participate. I asked Quim about it but he had no idea... who would?

Too bad! I'll take you of the list. If you do like to participate online, everybody can take part in the discussions:

First discussion topic: Mobile Creativity
Second discussion topic: Creative Media Editing & Sharing

How does it work with the sponsoring? Nokia pays for flight & 2 nights during the Summit (friday and saturday night)?
I'll discuss with Nokia if it can be arranged that they will pay for the Thursday night, after the co-creation session.

Would that help?

Yes. And it would help very much!

I'm not just trying to reciprocate.

SJGadsby should be there.

Thanks,
Tim

Hi All,

I spoke to Nokia and they will compensate the extra travelling costs and hotel for the Thursday night if you participate in the co-creation session on 8th of October.

Awesome! In case it works out for me, I found a Delta flight (6257 with connection to JFK Flight 80) that leaves Dallas at 9:10 in the morning of the 7th and arrives there around 6am Amsterdam time on the 8th.

Marieke, is this a separate cost center from Quim's that will be approving the additional expenses?

And are you close to identifying participants? We are being asked to start flight plans...

Yes, I'm quite sure it is something else, as I've never heard of Quim... ;-) These costs will be paid out of the budget for this co-creation session.

I hope to choose the final Maemo participants next week (there also haven't been any new people applying anymore), I prefer to speak to everyone from the list in person as well. I will ask everyone to send me a contact-number, so I can make some calls next week.

Ok, this is critical as it could cause some confusion...

Quim Gil is a Nokia manager representing the company to the Maemo community and vice-versa. I think that you two should get introduced at the very least.

Here's how I see it: for flights there should be no problem. Whether we fly in a day or so early or leave a day or so late should have little or no impact on the Maemo sponsorship.

However, it looks like hotel billing will be handled separately, with one cost center providing booking for the evening of the 8th and another (Quim's) providing booking for the 9th through 10th.

Hopefully your team can work out something soon, because many of us being sponsored are not in a position to pay much in the way of expenses...