Hi, Tim- Thanks for the feedback. On 8/18/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 16:03 -0400, Luis Villa wrote: > > > in 2004, Ad Board was a little under a fifth of our revenues; down > > from a little under half in 2003 and 2/3rds in 2002. [Though I think > > perhaps in 2002 GUADEC donations from our board was lumped in with the > > Ad Board fees?] > > The foundation's first reporting period in 2002 included AB fees > collected over two calendar years.
Ah. > There has been attrition in paid AB > membership, for example - Compaq, Mandrakesoft and OSDN/VA Linux. Yes, knew that. Glad to hear that we are making some progress on reversing that. > > 'unearned' revenue- i.e., revenue that in theory is unpredictable from > > year to year, unlike our ad board pledges- was 76.0% of revenue last > > year, up from 32 and 37 the years before. I guess that much of that > > leap is probably because of changes in how GUADEC revenue is booked, > > though. Tim, is that correct? > > The increase in corporate contributions is a result of my fundraising > with new support for GUADEC from IBM and RedHat and increased support > from Novell in 2004. The local government and company subsidies in > Norway for GUADEC were paid directly to Agder University College. > Nokia and Imendio became new financial contributors in 2005. Hrm. Interesting. So in general we are slowly increasing fundraising success, but not in ways that are repeatable? Luis _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
