On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 20:46 -0600, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: > 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...
So did I, but darned if I can find where. > 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. Right enough - just wanted to understand who represents TDF in those meetings? [this point I may have just overlooked in my reading] Then, how does what comes from those meetings work it's way to the general membership? > > > > > 2 - Minutes from AB meetings, where would I find those? > > I don't think that such minutes are published, nor should they. Actually public minutes are specifically mentioned on the wiki pages discussing setting up the AB - though I, like you , expect to see them heavily redacted and that is also covered on the wiki pages. > 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. I feel strongly however, that who and when are important to have out there. > > > > > 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) Yes - I'd be in favor of public top level figures but for details, absolutely there should be a condition of confidentiality. > > 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. I'd fall of my chair if someone said, 'it's all put together already' - though end-of-year figures with nothing but sub totals is no real disclosure, IMO. > > Norbert //drew -- 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
