On 02/10/10 11:47 AM, Daniel Stone wrote: > (tl;dr: Yes, I agree that the Foundation needs to be doing a lot more, > but nothing we've done is hidden from our members, i.e. board > members know basically as much as you, and that this is a result > of lack of time/etc, rather than any desire to keep any > information private. Yes, we should be doing better.) > > Hi, > > Disclaimer: All of this is off the top of my head. I could be and am > probably wrong on some of the details. This does not represent an > official statement on behalf of the Foundation, etc, etc. > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:31:32PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote: > >> The X.org Foundation exists to best represent the interests of the X.org >> Foundation members, by being the legal entity responsible for the state >> of the Foundation. To a large extent, its responsibility is to manage >> the considerable amount of funds that the X.org foundation has gathered >> over the years, in the best interest of these X.org foundation members. >> > Rather. For the record, I think the current balance is on the order of > ~$us150k. Around the time we dissolved the sponsors' group, we decided > As co-signer of the checks, that sounds really high, My guess is that its knocked down to 1/2 that by now, but I haven't seen the exact balance for a few years now. This needs to be sorted before comittments for the next conference are made. Keith?
> to temporarily stop seeking funds from previous financial contributors, > as we already had more than enough to fund our operations for several > years. > Too late to ask Sun for money ;-) > I assume that this will be re-evaluated within the next couple of years, > assuming that we continue to spend money (again, my personal opinion and > guesswork only). > A good action item for the next Board would be to set the bar for when to start fundraising. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
