Am 08.11.2011 02:37, schrieb Walter Bender:
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
<[email protected]> wrote:
Am 02.11.2011 18:50, schrieb Walter Bender:
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Mel Chua<[email protected]> wrote:
As a member of the Sugar Labs community I find it quite frustrating that
such basic information doesn't seem to be readily available (at least
not on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance where one would expect to
find it).
Yes, it is encouraging that Rubén's and Aleksey's recent funding
requests for Sugar Camp Lima were quickly acted and decided upon.
However I would assume that such decisions involve a quick look at the
current account balance which makes it all the less understandable why
the corresponding wiki page doesn't contain that information.
Actually, the reason I *didn't* vote on that funding request was because
I
(as a member of SLOBs) could not find that information either, and didn't
feel comfortable approving funding without knowing what our budget
picture
actually was.
So Christoph, I do agree with you.
Mel, I believe that as a SLOBs member you get the same reports from
the SFC as the rest of us.
# On 31 July 2011, Total assets restricted for Sugar
$ /usr/bin/ledger -f /tmp/5mKPnnXTFW/sugar.ledger -e 2011/08/01 bal
'^Assets'
$ 21,141.78 Assets
We don't have a more recent figure, but we also haven't incurred any
major expenses in the interim. This approximate number was mentioned
in a recent SLOBs meeting when the question of funds as raised.
Christoph, would you like to volunteer to maintain a public version of
our finances? We are shorthanded in this department and it seems to be
an area of interest.
Hi Walter,
thanks a lot for the update and apologies for the slow reply.
I just updated http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance#Current_finances with
the balance mentioned above and the information from Bernie's update
(http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-November/014354.html).
Looking through these messages I was wondering what is the status of those
Gould Grant efforts was?
Searching through the wiki shows that the grant was awarded in June of 2009
for the SoaS project in Boston
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Archive/Current_Events/2009-06-15). Then the
next, and last, mention of it is from January 2010 where you considered
asking them to see whether it can be used for infrastructure related
expenses
(http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010/Meeting_Log-2010-01-29).
The project has morphed into a new phase. Carolyn is working with a
Haitian diaspora community. She could I am sure give you an update.
Her principal focus has been working with Etoys.
Interesting, can't wait to hear more details! :-)
And you're certainly right, this is indeed an area of interest (though
admittedly only really since I've been forced to start dealing with finances
at OLPC Austria;-). If one of the SLOBs could simply keep me posted of
relevant information and updates by forwarding the relevant updates from SFC
I'd be happy to keep http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance up to date.
(However I of course don't want to step on Bernie's toes since he's taking
care of finances as well.)
I may have unearthed someone with experience in finance who will take
this one for us.
Okay, keep us in the loop about what's happening on this front.
Thanks,
Christoph
-walter
Cheers,
Christoph
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Christoph Derndorfer
editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
e-mail: [email protected]
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Christoph Derndorfer
editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
e-mail: [email protected]
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