Tom, Expect *who* to comply? And comply with what? --Jean On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:14, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi :) > Ahh, i got really muddled about what was being asked. I think it sounds > reasonable to ask for the money that was raised by the community that has now > mostly moved to LibreOffice but i don't think we can expect them to comply. > Regards from > Tom :) > > > --- On Sun, 11/3/12, Dave Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Dave Johnson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketing LibreOffice > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, 11 March, 2012, 1:00 > > Can a marketing person request a printed LO user guide instead of money? I > am approaching a Church School to adopt L O vice MSO. A book to show them > in my presentation will help. > On Mar 10, 2012 6:24 PM, "Jean Weber" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Tom, >> Are you supporting or objecting to having local groups request some of the >> money that Friends of OpenDocument is holding? >> >> Jean >> >> On 11/03/2012, at 8:55, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Hi :) >> > I thought the plan was to have "local teams", such as the Brazilian, or >> the French or wherever, all administering their own finances and then >> giving maybe a flat rate as "Affiliation fees" or some such and then maybe >> a percentage too. >> > >> > My personal feeling is that Local teams need to work towards being >> self-sufficient and it would be great if they can cover their own sundry >> costs without always having to discuss minutia and waiting for TDF's BoD to >> approve a sundry expense. I don't see any problem with Local Teams being >> affiliated to both OOo and LO at the same time now. I guess some funds may >> need to be restricted to one or the other but that is something for the >> bookkeeping records and end-of-year financial accounts. >> > >> > Regards from >> > Tom :) >> > >> > >> > --- On Sat, 10/3/12, ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > From: ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <[email protected]> >> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketing >> LibreOffice >> > To: [email protected] >> > Date: Saturday, 10 March, 2012, 8:18 >> > >> > Hi Jean, all, >> > >> > Am 10.03.2012 05:13, schrieb Jean Weber: >> > >> >> Instead of giving the LO money to The Document Foundation >> >> for general expenses, we think it is better to make it available to >> >> cover expenses that The Document Foundation can't or won't >> >> deal with. Some examples might be the cost of marketing >> >> materials (including copies of the user guides) for tables at events, >> >> attendance at events aimed at potential and actual customers >> >> (librarians, educators, etc), or just about anything that would be >> >> valuable for spreading awareness and growing the community >> >> and the customer base. >> > >> > 2 thoughts: >> > - maybe interesting for the BoD-ml ([email protected]) >> too. >> > - maybe some part of the money for a travel refund (see point 12 of the >> BoD-tasks [1]? "We are not yet in a position to pay these" >> > >> > [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Tasks >> > >> > >> > --- >> > Grüße >> > k-j >> >
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