Thanks Tom. I was hoping that committee would be a good way to bridge the dual hattedness of fundraising/treasurer that has been historically needed.
Who all is on the finance committee right now? Regards, KAM On 2/2/2019 11:37 AM, Tom Pappas wrote: > Hello Uli hope you are feeling better. After reading this I am happy > to connect with you and assist, as the volunteer VP of Finance with > the paperwork Kevin notes as I also sit on the Fundraising committee > as well. So I think that would help on a couple of levels. I am in > the office all next week, let me know if you have some time to > connect. Take care and feel better and have a good weekend > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Feb 2, 2019, at 9:35 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org > <mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org>> wrote: > >> On 2/2/2019 3:59 AM, Ulrich Stärk wrote: >>> Can someone please explain what the urgency is? We will have the >>> GSoC application ready by the deadline on Feb 6, plenty of time left. >> >> Hi Uli, there are two issues at hand: >> >> 1 - The application due Feb 6th and concern that you've been ill. So >> Maxim stepped up and has been leading getting the application done. >> That is considered time-sensitive and no one seems to have the >> statistics about student success/failure from GSoC2018. We have the >> 2017 information as you noted elsewhere. Hopefully that's good to go >> now. This was the reason for the time-sensitive subject line. >> >> 2 - The other issue at hand is not as time sensitive. There are >> various other paperwork for the program that are required as the year >> goes on that need to be handled to get the donation from Google. >> I've handled it for the past 2 years and I'm exiting the role. I'm >> not being replaced in a 1:1 fashion so there are duties that I have >> been handling that I'm concerned about due to a retraction of duties >> that will leave GSOC slipping through the cracks. I'd prefer that >> not happen. >> >> Maybe if you can volunteer to handle that for Fundraising, that would >> be good? I don't think it should fall under treasurer but the issue >> is it will take someone in a financial role to handle a lot of it. >> Another idea is to light a fire under the financial committee and add >> this to the tasks it handles as an intermediary to give oversight to >> treasurer and assistance to fundraising where they need. >> >> Regards, >> KAM >> >> >>> >>> On 2. Feb 2019, at 04:27, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org >>> <mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org>> wrote: >>> >>>> FYI, I've handled all the paperwork for the donation for 2 years, >>>> FYI. Normally Uli fills out the application though because it's >>>> been sick. It definitely needs to be discussed with you and >>>> Treasurer about who will handle the paperwork. ComDev is unlikely >>>> to be able to handle the money transfer details. With Treasurer >>>> and Fundraising both having paid staff, one of the two should be >>>> where the buck stops (pun intended). >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> KAM >>>> -- >>>> Kevin A. McGrail >>>> VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation >>>> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >>>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 10:24 PM Daniel Ruggeri >>>> <drugg...@primary.net <mailto:drugg...@primary.net>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Sorry I wasn't around at the time all these emails were flying. >>>> As far as I know, GSoC is and always has been a ComDev thing. >>>> While it's super cool that the Foundation receives a stipend >>>> for mentoring, that doesn't necessarily pull Fundraising in. I >>>> assume this is just confusion of hats. >>>> >>>> It seems like this has been picked up by our good friend Maxim >>>> (hopefully with some vital info coming soon from Uli), so I am >>>> glad it is in good hands. I guess for next year we should >>>> consider pairing people up together so we aren't single threaded. >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Ruggeri >>>> >>>> On February 1, 2019 1:51:20 PM CST, "Kevin A. McGrail" >>>> <kmcgr...@apache.org <mailto:kmcgr...@apache.org>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Thanks Maxim. Fundraising has helped before as this is a >>>> fundraising >>>> item for the ASF but there are some hiccups as my role in >>>> fundraising is >>>> ending and who is taking over some things is not clear. All I know >>>> right now is that it isn't Sally. >>>> >>>> I just left Uli a v/m. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> KAM >>>> >>>> On 2/1/2019 11:12 AM, Maxim Solodovnik wrote: >>>> >>>> OK, I was thinking fundraising@ is about the money and >>>> the sponsors :) Trying to make things right :) >>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: fundraising-unsubscr...@apache.org >>>> <mailto:fundraising-unsubscr...@apache.org> >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: fundraising-h...@apache.org >>>> <mailto:fundraising-h...@apache.org> >>>> >> >> -- >> Kevin A. McGrail >> VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation >> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 -- Kevin A. McGrail VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
