GNOME Foundation Budget

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 17:14 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> > Budget information is trickling out, and we're engaging in concrete
> > plans to do things beyond GUADEC. We still need to be able to do
> > things like 'show what we spend money on beyond GUADEC and
> > administration', and enhance those aspects of our operation. Past
> > that, more than anything else, we need to push foundation PR- the
> > foundation needs to market itself to the community and convince the
> > community that it is relevant. I think we need to highlight
> > 'foundation money did this, foundation employee did that', and do that
> > repeatedly. We don't, and that makes people think foundation is
> > irrelevant, which is part of why we see such disinterest in becoming a
> > foundation member, I think.
> 
> While we're on the subject, is there likely to be financial report
> anytime soon? Only asking as I uploaded a recent statement, and it would
> be good to get a mail from the Foundation to accompany it and explaining
> some of the details involved. Tim?

Ping? Are are we just going to be treated to the figures in 

http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/gnome-foundation-fiscal-year-04-and-03.pdf

and expect to know what they all mean?



Glynn