Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 14 April 2014 05:19, Jim Campbell wrote: > Hi All, > > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova > wrote: >> >> On 12 April 2014 05:29, Sindhu S wrote: >> > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Ekaterina Gerasimova >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> The board expects that you may have some ques

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Ekaterina Gerasimova
On 14 April 2014 10:02, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Kat, > > Has any thought been Hi en to charging an administrative handling fee for > Women's Outreach? Clearly it is taking a lot of time to administer, it does > not seem fair that the GNOME Foundation shoulder all of the financial burden > of managi

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Olav Vitters wrote: > On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:12AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: >> The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to >> know more details about the problem, please read >> https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact >> the board

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Olav Vitters
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:32:12AM +0100, Ekaterina Gerasimova wrote: > The board expects that you may have some questions or would like to > know more details about the problem, please read > https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ and contact > the board at board-l...@gnome.org if

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Dave Neary
Hi Kat, Has any thought been Hi en to charging an administrative handling fee for Women's Outreach? Clearly it is taking a lot of time to administer, it does not seem fair that the GNOME Foundation shoulder all of the financial burden of managing it. Cheers, Dave. On Apr 12, 2014 1:32 AM, "Ekate

Re: Current state of Foundation finances

2014-04-14 Thread Allan Day
Matthew Garrett wrote: ... > GNOME exists because people contribute to it. OPW has demonstrated a > strong track record of creating long-term contributors. The mere > existence of OPW has caused people who might otherwise not be > enthusiastic about contributing to GNOME to contribute to GNOME, ev