Re: GNOME Foundation budget (Oct 2010-June 2011)

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

So yes, my question is how much do we have in the bank then? Without 
that figure it's hard to tell what's the real status.

Thank you.

Fred

On 07/29/2011 03:09 AM, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Hi Fred,
>
> Is your question, do we have enough money in the bank? If so, the answer
> is yes. :)
>
> We always keep a reserve, a nonprofit best practice. We also try to
> spend what we bring in each year towards supporting our mission and
> goals. So as Germán says, the "overspend" is money that was already
> budgeted for those things from money we raised last year.
>
> Best,
>
> Stormy
>
> 2011/7/28 Germán Póo-Caamaño <gpoo gnome org <mailto:gpoo gnome org>>
>
>     On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 23:09 +0800, Frederic Muller wrote:
>      > Hi!
>      >
>      > Thank you for the detailed updated report. I see a lot a red but
>     can't
>      > find the balance from 2010. Is the situation very worrying (-$107K or
>      > -$105K end of September) or do we have a lot of cash?
>
>     Hi Fred,
>
>     The original plan (Proposed budget) includes some expenditures we did
>     not do last year and that were moved to this fiscal year.  For instance,
>     $50,000 on Mobile, ~$30,000 on Women's Outreach Program, ~$10,000 on
>     Marketing, ~$5,000 on a11y.  So, that explains the plan for the current
>     year to be "negative" (that you can see on the sheets 'Budget' and 'Real
>     +Proj').  You can compare it against the final budget for the last year
>     http://foundation.gnome.org/finance/gnome-foundation-budget-2010-final.ods
>
>     On the other hand, there are some red figures in the 'Waterfall' sheet.
>     In the case of 'Expenses' a red number means we have spent more planed
>     until June. In the case of 'Income', a red number means we have received
>     less than expected until June.
>
>     The 'Real+Proj' sheet shows what we have spent and what we expect for
>     the following months per item.  That said, we need to work on Friends of
>     GNOME.
>
>     --
>     Germán Póo-Caamaño
>     http://people.gnome.org/~gpoo/ <http://people.gnome.org/%7Egpoo/>
>
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