Re: [board-discuss] budget request: audit of TDF contracts by a tax advisor

2012-05-22 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Michael Meeks wrote: That is a phenomenal expense. I feel rather unhappy spending this much money without really getting to the bottom of whether it is truly necessary. Fair enough, so let me put that on the agenda for the next BoD call. Cheers, -- Thorsten pgpL3hiG7WDRu.pgp

[board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use the application page ( related info). has partial translation been

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use

[board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, When inviting people in the Dutch language community to consider membership of TDF, two items showed up. 1. Not all active people are familiar enough with the beautiful English language to feel comfortable to use the application page ( related info). has partial translation been

Re: [board-discuss] TDF Accounting: an update

2012-05-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Le mardi 22 mai 2012 à 16:14 +0200, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : Hi there, getting on top of accounting these days. I use gnucash (http://gnucash.org/), a Free and Open Source software for personal and small-business accounting - Gnome-based, featuring double-entry bookkeeping, and available

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Charles-H.Schulz
Hello Norbert, Cor, all, Le mardi 22 mai 2012 à 08:25 -0500, Norbert Thiebaud a écrit : On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:36 AM, sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: This is what language communities are supposed to do : give those who don't speak English a chance to be part of the project. We

Re: [board-discuss] membership application/language and supporters

2012-05-22 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi all, Thanks for the thoughts... Charles-H.Schulz wrote (22-05-12 18:43) I'll try to go back to the initial two questions. The first one, the one of the language, is an important one. To my very own surprise (and partial misunderstanding) we have lots of enthusiastic volunteers who *do and

Re: [board-discuss] TDF Accounting: an update

2012-05-22 Thread Italo Vignoli
Charles-H.Schulz wrote: Le mardi 22 mai 2012 à 16:14 +0200, Thorsten Behrens a écrit : Hi there, getting on top of accounting these days. I use gnucash (http://gnucash.org/), a Free and Open Source software for personal and small-business accounting - Gnome-based, featuring double-entry

Re: [board-discuss] funding for admin weekend

2012-05-22 Thread Italo Vignoli
Caolán McNamara wrote: On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 14:34 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: let's say 1.000 € in total, excluding travel fees? +1 -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com