Travel Sponsorship Delays and Next Steps

Hey everyone,

The board would like to let you know about the delays in travel 
sponsorship that some of you may be experiencing.

Neil and the Travel Committee are working hard in changing the current 
process of handling requests to comply to GDPR. We expect to have it 
fully ironed out early next week, which will help with processing 
requests. New requests will go through a ticket system, rather than 
emails, in order to comply with our new privacy and data retention 
policy (FIX ME: add link to privacy policy #53).

* How will this affect people applying for sponsorship?

We don't expect people having already submitted their requests to have 
to resubmit them. For those who have not sent in their requests yet, 
please do so now.

However, if your requests is more than 2 weeks old and you are observing 
a drastic shift in the flight prices, feel free to resubmit, mentioning 
this is replacing a previous request.

In addition, we'd like to let you know that the Travel Committee has 
experienced a change in membership recently and new members are ramping 
up. All committee members are being trained to comply with GDPR standards.

Sorry for the delays and any impact they may have. While these hiccups 
are painful, we believe that the changes we are making will help us 
process requests more efficiently and with better privacy control than 
previously. If any further delay or events blocking the processing of 
requests occur, we'll keep you updated.

On behalf of the board,

Didier