On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:07 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > A few questions: > > The Advisory Board > > 1 - Where would I find a rooster of what corporations constitute the > board and who their representatives on the board are?
I think the list has been advertised... but I not sure the actual names of the people delegated to represent such companies are relevant. An AB seat is bound to the sponsoring entity, and they get to designate whom-ever they want at any time to represent them. AB is the only entity where people are not there as individual but as representative of some other entity. So I agree that the list of entity should be public, but the individual's name of the representative... not so sure it is required. > > 2 - Minutes from AB meetings, where would I find those? I don't think that such minutes are published, nor should they. If you want honest and frank advices/opinions from big corporation, you can't have these advice being published publicly. Similarly in order to get advice from these actors, I expect our representatives to present to them ideas, line of inquiry, nascent projects that are being considered... most of them in a state of development that would render them premature for public disclosure at that time... So once you remove all that meat from the minutes, you would be left with nothing substantive... I don't see the point. > > Current Budget (expenses paid primarily) > > 1 - Where, or when will financial statements become public, either for > general availability (my preference but I know that cuts across the > grain form many), or restricted to TDF membership? Since we are collection money from the public, under charitable status, I think we should publish publicly at least a top-level 'Income Statement' and Balance Sheet. Members on the other hand should have the ability to audit the full detailed accounting ledger, provided some confidentiality requirement (every member is entitled to see the books, but not to publish or disclose to non-member information contained herein that has not otherwise been made public. the idea is to empower the membership to trust-but-verify, not to allow competing entity to gain inside knowledge) Otoh the stifung was just created... up to now the accounting were somehow mixed with frodev... so I would no expect to have anything published for a while. Realistically public disclosure of some accounting would prolly be an end-of-fiscal-year event... since the work needed is already done for tax purpose it would not be an extra burden on our volunteers. Norbert -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
