On 04/06/2017 05:51 PM, fauno wrote: > all of this made me lose sleep over a week, not knowing what kind of > mess i would find every morning, and ultimately made me lose trust on > the people involved. i believe emulatorman and others' impatience, > impulsiveness and lack of transparency put us in this position, where > ceata rightfully doesn't want to have anything else to do with parabola > and we have to find a new fiscal sponsorship in 60 days. which i find > doubtful. >
For whatever it's worth, I don't think you or the other Parabola team members were at fault here. As someone who has tried to provide donated infrastructure directly developers multiple times, every time even a small amount of money was asked to be used for shipping or parts, we would spend weeks just going back and forth about how the funds "had to be declared", and if someone tried to by something locally in cash "oh no, that isn't declared so we can't reimburse anyone anything". Essentially, the laws of Romania, and Ceata by extension, were making it very difficult. It's not their fault that they reside in that country, but it is what it is. I would be happy to see the money reach developers directly, it never really has. Since you were working as delegate and developer, you should be able to claim funds too. Wouldn't it be useful if the remaining funds which are to expire went directly to the core team such as yourself, emulatorman, ovruni, and others who have been here the longest? We could even reimburse lukeshu for his excellent work on libretools and spending time at LibrePlanet. Unfortunately, most any of those ideas couldn't be "declared" which leads me to wonder if the money ever really existed at all - other than to be a stressful headache for yourself and everyone involved in the project. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
