On 16 April 2014 11:19, Dave Neary dne...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi,
On 04/16/2014 05:23 AM, Liam R E Quin wrote:
The more important something is, the more important it is that we have
good Free software to meet our needs.
I agree.
If there are problems with GnuCash and it's the most suitable
On 13 April 2014 17:11, Stormy Peters stormy.pet...@gmail.com wrote:
Is the budget and the current state of financials (account balances,
invoices due, money expected) public? If not, can we get at least a summary?
Hi Stormy, here's the link to the financial summary for 2013, with
earlier years
This is a rather random post but it was sufficiently important for me to
point out. When I read the following FAQ linked below I took some time to
digest what was really happening. You lost track of your accounting,
that's all. You don't have systems in place that allow a small staff to
properly
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 01:45:15AM +0200, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote:
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Hi Mathieu,
I'll start by saying that playing devil's advocate isn't really likely
to be a helpful way to contribute to this discussion. The board should
consider the opinions that the GNOME
Matthew Garrett mj...@srcf.ucam.org wrote:
...
GNOME exists because people contribute to it. OPW has demonstrated a
strong track record of creating long-term contributors. The mere
existence of OPW has caused people who might otherwise not be
enthusiastic about contributing to GNOME to
Hi Kat,
Has any thought been Hi en to charging an administrative handling fee for
Women's Outreach? Clearly it is taking a lot of time to administer, it does
not seem fair that the GNOME Foundation shoulder all of the financial
burden of managing it.
Cheers,
Dave.
On Apr 12, 2014 1:32 AM,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:12AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to
know more details about the problem, please read
https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact
the board at board-l...@gnome.org if
Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:12AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to
know more details about the problem, please read
https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact
On 14 April 2014 10:02, Dave Neary nea...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kat,
Has any thought been Hi en to charging an administrative handling fee for
Women's Outreach? Clearly it is taking a lot of time to administer, it does
not seem fair that the GNOME Foundation shoulder all of the financial burden
On 14 April 2014 05:19, Jim Campbell jcampb...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi All,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 April 2014 05:29, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com
On 2014-04-13 02:20, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
On 2014-04-13 01:43, Stormy Peters wrote:
Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating
expenses as reserves.
I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm
recently enough gone that I can answer
David King amigad...@amigadave.com wrote:
...
Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating
expenses as reserves.
I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm
recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundation has adequate
reserves for GNOME's
So, the FAQ has a call for donations, however I can't find how to donate
anywhere, the closest thing I can find is making a PayPal donation to GIMP
:-)
2014-04-13 15:40 GMT+02:00 Allan Day allanp...@gmail.com:
David King amigad...@amigadave.com wrote:
...
Don't we have reserves though? We
Hi Alberto,
On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
So, the FAQ has a call for donations, however I can't find how to donate
anywhere, the closest thing I can find is making a PayPal donation to GIMP
:-)
There's a link from https://www.gnome.org to
hi Alberto;
you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of GNOME program:
https://www.gnome.org/friends/
which is also linked directly and prominently from the www.gnome.org
landing page. ;-)
ciao,
Emmanuele.
On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz ar...@gnome.org wrote:
So,
Right! Thanks Emmanuele,
We need to work out on the goolge juice so that how to donate to gnome
foundation shows something useful in a search engine :-)
2014-04-13 17:40 GMT+02:00 Emmanuele Bassi eba...@gmail.com:
hi Alberto;
you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of
Is the budget and the current state of financials (account balances,
invoices due, money expected) public? If not, can we get at least a summary?
Are we paying our employee during this freeze? Is it expected that we would
be able to employ an executive director if we want to?
Thanks to the board
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote:
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities
more directly beneficial to its future than OPW?
I
Hi Germán ,
I apologize for the bad paste. I was replying to Mathieu Duponchelle but
the paste was from an email in which you quoted his previous email.
Cheers,
Meg
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 7:52 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote:
On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 19:44 -0500, meg ford wrote:
Yep, they were mine.
Hijacking the thread to ask you which channels you're hanging in Meg, have
tried #gnome-music once or twice but you were not around, I've started some
work on a waveformer object, I guess you'll be interested :)
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:06 AM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com
Hi All,
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 April 2014 05:29, Sindhu S sind...@live.in wrote:
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
The board expects that you may have some questions or
I have also have a question: can the Board please explain why they were not
aware of this situation until now, and how they became aware of it? This
seems like a lot of money and I would like to know how it is that no one
noticed the shortfall until we got to this point. It seems like this
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 09:59 +0530, Sindhu S wrote:
[...]
Could this be resolved by putting in place web application that
one can login to with their e-mail
address and the details would of reimbursement associated with that person
could be pooled in there?
This web application should also be
On 2014-04-12 14:45, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
No, it wasn't know. If it had been known, spending would have been
frozen by then and a budget for the hackfest would not have been
approved.
For perspective, people actually call this a success crisis.
Thank you so much to the board and
Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating
expenses as reserves.
On Apr 12, 2014 5:26 PM, Karen Sandler ka...@gnome.org wrote:
On 2014-04-12 14:45, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote:
No, it wasn't know. If it had been known, spending would have been
frozen by then and a
On 2014-04-13 01:43, Stormy Peters wrote:
Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating
expenses as reserves.
I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm
recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundation has adequate
reserves for GNOME's
Dear Foundation members,
Due to a shortfall in the budget, the Foundation board voted on
2014-04-08 to freeze all expenditure which is not essential to the
running of the Foundation. This freeze affects sponsorship expenses
which are unpaid at this time, but it does not affect the funds which
we
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities
more directly beneficial to its future than OPW?
I'll leave the question of what these other activities might be to the
engagement core team, who discuss that at length and will certainly
On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 01:45 +0200, Mathieu Duponchelle wrote:
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities
more directly beneficial to its future than OPW?
No, for two reasons:
1. My understanding after reading the FAQ is that
Thanks for the answer.
I think the question deserves being asked, I'd be interested in other
opinions,
as well as hopefully facts about sponsors' involvement (of particular
interest would
be the question to know if they see sponsoring OPW as just a way to help
GNOME
at large or if they do have a
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 7:36 PM, Germán Poo-Caamaño g...@gnome.org wrote:
I'll play devil's advocate here:
Couldn't GNOME use funds from these various sponsors to fund activities
more directly beneficial to its future than OPW?
I think a better approach might be: how can we motivate
I'm not sure this is a direct answer to the question I was asking,
but yes it is clear that finding more funding would be beneficial in the
absolute,
I have absolutely no clue regarding that though :)
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 2:44 AM, meg ford meg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova
kittykat3...@gmail.com wrote:
The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to
know more details about the problem, please read
https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact
the board at
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