As someone who is not a FoOD member but is a FoOD "customer", I think
that they do an excellent job. We get full, published accounts, complete
control and none of the hassle. This service was invaluable for ODF when
co-sponsoring the SCALE conference, from the fund raiser, to the
spenditures. FoOD provides this finnancial service for two groups right
now (OOoAuthors and ODF) and may add a third in the near future.
Cheers,
Daniel.
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
The Friends of OpenDocument Inc. (FoOD) was set up to handle money for
any organisation or group that fits our mission and needs the services
of a bank account and PayPal account.
Daniel's earlier note to this list may have left the impression that
FoOD was set up to fund the OpenDocument Fellowship, but in fact the
original reason for setting up FoOD was to handle sales of books
produced by OOoAuthors. We envisioned providing services to any
appropriate group that needed those services. The Fellowship was the
second group we helped. We are currently looking at assisting other groups.
The services of FoOD are available to OpenOffice.org as well. I realise
that TeamOOo already exists, but perhaps some way to channel funds to
local events -- particularly in Australia & New Zealand -- might be
useful. No need to set up a separate organisation; we're already here.
FoOD's policy is for the members of a group (not the FoOD management
committee or membership) to determine how their money is spent. So we
are acting only as a provider of a bank account, not making decisions
about the funds that go through that account. Each group's funds are
accounted for separately.
FoOD's mission is:
To support the work of community volunteers in promoting, improving and
providing user assistance for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office
Applications (OpenDocument) and open source software designed to operate
on data in this format.
Clearly this covers providing support to OpenOffice.org.
More information is on this page and others linked from it:
http://friendsofopendocument.org/about.htm
I am happy to answer any questions about the organisation that anyone
may have.
Regards, Jean
Jean Hollis Weber
Secretary/Treasurer, Friends of OpenDocument Inc.
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