On 11-Mar-02, 17:53 (CST), Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Er, Wichert is the SPI Secretary; I am the SPI Treasurer.
Oops, sorry. It was you I meant, though. > It is Debian's right and responsibility to approve this donation. My > role as SPI Treasurer is twofold: > 1) try to ensure that it's legal for SPI to make the expenditure; I should have been more explicit in my question: If SPI recieves >= $1000 donations with a specific request that the donations be spent only to purchase an OASIS membership for Debian, can the purchase then be made w/o getting formal majority approval for the Debian members? > However, in the instant issue I cannot make an assessment of whether > OASIS membership is worthwhile. I had not even heard of the > organization until this thread. They've done (or at least organized and coordinated) a *lot* of work in the area of SGML standards and documentation. My personal opinion is that if several of our SGML/XML knowledgeable developers express an interest, and are willing to kick in, say, %50 of the first year fee, then we could/should pick up the rest. After that, I'd want to see some sort of indication that it was being put to use. Steve -- Steve Greenland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
