Re: GNOME Foundation Budget

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 8/18/05, Tim Ney, GNOME Foundation <director gnome org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:14 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> 
> > Another one is travel and trade show budgets- I know we sent Tim to
> > LWE SF in 2004, for example- is that money under conference/trade
> > shows? travel? This is unclear in the 2004 budget.
> 
> I did not attend LWE SF in 2004.

You're right, I misremembered- it was LWE NYC, right?
 
> > the 2003 budget shows ~$25K in 'earned' conference revenue, but 0 in separate GUADEC
> > contributions, and 2004 shows only $7K in 'earned' conference revenue
> > and $60K in GUADEC contributions. I assume these fluctuations are just
> > because we accounted for GUADEC differently in 2002, 2003, and 2004,
> > and in the future we'll just book everything as we did in 2004?
> 
> In 2003, there was earned revenue from room bookings at Trinity College
> in Dublin.  Housing payments and some registration fees in 2004 were
> paid directly to the college in Kristiansand.  In 2004, the GUADEC
> earned revenue of 7K was exhibition space rental.  With the growth of
> the foundation's activities in 2004 to include projects other than
> GUADEC, the financial statement now reflects those program activities -
> GUADEC, Bounties, GIMP.

Yup, got that. Thanks for the clarification, Tim-
Luis
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