Re: Required: Administrator for the Foundation

[Ross Golder <ross golder org>]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 14:14 -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> *shrug*
> 
> Online banking is a new feature for this bank.  We told them we were
> planning on switching banks if they didn't support Firefox or other
> browsers, and they said that they would look into it.  I wouldn't expect
> them to support it overnight, and given the expense of switching banks,
> I wouldn't want to switch immediately.

It shouldn't be hard to find a bank that does support our needs, open an
account with them, transfer the money from the old account, close the
old account, update some docs/notes. I can't see it costing more than a
few hours and maybe a few dollars. A reasonably motivated administrator
should have that done in a day or two, I'd have thought, then they won't
have to sit around waiting for our bank to fix their systems.

I'm curious as to why the account was opened with the current bank in
the first place, without a basic check that their on-line facilities
were suitable. It seems a bit odd. I'm not looking to assign blame to
anyone, just to make sure it's a mistake learned from and something
similar won't happen again at the foundation's cost. I'm also curious
about who the current bank is :)

> Additionally, if you recall, the original purpose of this thread was to
> help find an administrator for the GNOME Foundation.  I would expect the
> new admin to switch banks if we can't use Firefox or epiphany, but we're
> not exactly operating on all cylinders right now.
> 

A good first job for them then. Also, would it be possible for them to
write a brief monthly report to the foundation-list about their month's
activities and expenses etc. It might help make things a little more
transparent/accountable.

--
Ross