On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 05:01:11PM -0800, Stuart Kreitman wrote: > On 02/10/10 03:43 PM, Luc Verhaegen wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:17:16PM -0800, Stuart Kreitman wrote: >> >>> 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? >>> >>> >> So, Stuart, you are not on the board, but you have to cosign the >> checks... How come there seems to be no certainty about the amount still >> available? >> >> Luc Verhaegen. >> > > > I have co-signed every check since 2005. Keith has given me a verbal on > the balance from time to > time, but I haven't seen a written or historical accounting in a while. > I trust Keith doesn't want to > do something dumb like bounce a check, and you can ask him about how > skeptical and severe > I am when it comes to COUNTER-signing. After all, most of this money > originated from my employer. > > By the way, do you have receipts for reimbursement of FOSDEM costs? > > > Stuart
My question was more about how it could be possible that there seems to be a rather large discrepancy between what you think should be in the accounts, and what Daniel, a board member not handling funds, thinks should be in the accounts. This seems a weird situation. Like last year, there are no FOSDEM costs. After some questions were raised about the social event, I decided to also forgo asking X.org sponsorship for that. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
