Re: Foundation Budget for 2008

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 17:22 +0100, Dave Neary wrote:

> Friends of GNOME: community contributions have been ridiculously low for
> the past 2 years since we have not pushed them. This can be a source of
> problems for us if we get audited by the IRS, since we don't have enough
> community funding to justify our 501(c)3 status right now. I suggest
> overhawling FoG, figuring out how to set up annual subscriptions and
> establishing donation levels, and doing a big community fundraising push.

Just a quick comment:  While we should definitely push for more FoG
contributions, I don't believe we actually have 501(c)3 issues with our
current source of funding.  I am happy to double check with the
accountant though.

Thanks,
-Jonathan