On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 12:05 PM, MJ Ray <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ross Gardler <[email protected]>
> > I'm jumping in and speaking as a mentor of AOO and  ASF VP of
> > Community Development.
>
> Thanks - and just to be clear, I'm only speaking as an ordinary
> contributing member of SPI, who felt a responsibility to ask what I
> felt were obvious questions.  So, I can't see any of these emails:
>
> > [...] For
> > more information on this please see the mail sent by Wolf Halton to
> > [email protected] on 19 March 2012 (subject "monies collected for
> > OpenOffice.org") and copied to [email protected] by Michael
> > Schultheiss on the same day. [...]
>
> as - for reasons which I think I know and agree with - those mailboxes
> are not visible to all members.
>
> Thanks for quoting parts of it, but it's enough to learn that
> assurances have been sent.  I trust the board to judge whether they
> feel that they are sufficient to ensure that SPI-held funds are used
> honestly, as described at the time they were raised.
>
> Thanks also for explaining the absence from the projects listing.
>
> (I am, of course, saddened to see an association-supported project now
> apparently forked into two(?) foundation-supported projects, because
> open and voluntary membership and equality are important to me, but
> I'm just odd like that.)
>
> Regards,
> --
> MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
> http://koha-community.org supporter, web and library systems developer.
> In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
> Available for hire (including development) at http://www.software.coop/
>

Thanks for getting the funds released.

Wolf

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