As stated in the proposal, any unused funds will simply be applied toward other conference and travel expenses. As the price of the flights exceeded the initial estimates, and we had to fly Evan down the day before to make the day-before networking events (thus an extra night hotel), we did incur higher costs than anticipated. So it was really applied toward those costs already. As is usually the case, airline costs tend to increase between the date we request funding, and the date the network distributes the funds and we can actually book tickets.
I won't know for certain until Daniel and Evan submit their hotel bills and ground transportation costs. The largest impact hasn't been cost differences, though. Any shortage is primarily because of the decline in price... remember this request was initiated when Dash was about $13.90 - a peak. By the time it even funded we were already having to pay more Dash to cover the conference sponsorship. We'll see. Evan has never kept track of ground transport receipts, so I've never had to pay those out.
this brings up again the problem with USD denominated proposals...
There really isn't a way to avoid it. In ALL proposals that must fund a USD expense, there is currency exchange risk. We deal with it primarily through setting aside some savings to cushion some of the exchange rate risk inherent in these proposals.That's unfortunate, sorry to hear that
he is on a little holiday as far as i know and should be back in 1-2 days
