GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-07-28 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
Foundation members, I have uploaded an updated budget for the current fiscal year. It includes the our income and expenses from October 2010 to June 2011 and the expectations from July to September. You will the information available at:

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Vincent Untz
Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011, à 20:13 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included, such as email, online discussion, package names, non-graphical advertisements (when permitted), and academic papers. We encourage the

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-07-28 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 23:09 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote: Hi! Thank you for the detailed updated report. I see a lot a red but can't find the balance from 2010. Is the situation very worrying (-$107K or -$105K end of September) or do we have a lot of cash? Hi Fred, The original plan

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-07-28 Thread Stormy Peters
Hi Fred, Is your question, do we have enough money in the bank? If so, the answer is yes. :) We always keep a reserve, a nonprofit best practice. We also try to spend what we bring in each year towards supporting our mission and goals. So as Germán says, the overspend is money that was already

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Alan Cox
This section is quite broad, and is only modified by the somewhat vague Fair Use section. Unfortunately, if taken literally, it would prevent The Fair Use section has another problem btw when someone is looking at this. Fair Use has no meaning in most legal systems outside the USA. I'm

Re: proposal to change GNOME's trademark guidelines

2011-07-28 Thread Karen Sandler
On Thu, July 28, 2011 4:12 am, Vincent Untz wrote: Le mercredi 27 juillet 2011, à 20:13 -0400, Karen Sandler a écrit : This requirement is waived in all contexts where such marks are not normally included, such as email, online discussion, package names, non-graphical advertisements (when

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-07-28 Thread Germán Póo-Caamaño
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:09 -0600, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Fred, Is your question, do we have enough money in the bank? If so, the answer is yes. :) We always keep a reserve, a nonprofit best practice. We also try to spend what we bring in each year towards supporting our mission and

Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

2011-07-28 Thread Frederic Muller
So yes, my question is how much do we have in the bank then? Without that figure it's hard to tell what's the real status. Thank you. Fred On 07/29/2011 03:09 AM, Stormy Peters wrote: Hi Fred, Is your question, do we have enough money in the bank? If so, the answer is yes. :) We always