On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:26:56PM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:47:11 +0000, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > > > [0]: Namely, it's been incredibly difficult to even get a statement out > > out of our current bank. We've been hoping to switch for quite > > some time, but unfortunately this is basically predicated on the > > 501(c)(3) transition. > > Yay! Our bank now makes statements available over email. Which makes > things easier for me to find as physical mail tends to get shuffled in > piles around my office. > > In any case, I've got a tentative accounting for our activities last > year (I'm checking with Stuart Kreitman as he holds the other checkbook) > and can summarize them by referencing two activities -- we paid for XDS > expenses, both travel and hosting (for a total of about $7k) and we paid > $3k to host machines at MIT. We've got around $125k left in the bank, > which again makes me not get too excited about looking for additional > funding sources. > > My personal goal for the organization is to get us to a spend rate of at > least $20k a year, and to have about 2X that in the bank (other's may > disagree with the numbers, of course). Which means that if you have a > good idea that would help X.org development, and you just need money to > make it happen, please bring it to the board and we'll figure out if we > can fund it. > > Our 501(c)3 filing papers state that we are a non-profit educational > foundation, so pretty much anything which educates people about the X > window system and related technologies is in-scope for us. > > > [1]: When basically the entire board is present at a conference, we have > > generally taken the opportunity to have an extended -- usually two > > hours plus -- meeting over lunch or dinner, which is then expensed. > > When this was done at Cambridge, I believe the cost was on the order > > of £20 per head. > > We haven't managed even that in the last couple of years. > > -- > keith.pack...@intel.com
Can we get some more details here please? Alanc also mentioned ssl certificates, FOSDEM 2010 and Videohackfest from the top of his head. Luc Verhaegen. _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
