Re: Current state of Foundation finances

[Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org>]

Right! Thanks Emmanuele,

We need to work out on the goolge juice so that "how to donate to gnome foundation" shows something useful in a search engine :-)

2014-04-13 17:40 GMT+02:00 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>:

hi Alberto;

you can donate to the GNOME Foundation through the Friends of GNOME program:

  https://www.gnome.org/friends/

which is also linked directly and prominently from the www.gnome.org
landing page. ;-)

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

On 13 April 2014 16:31, Alberto Ruiz <aruiz gnome org> wrote:

> So, the FAQ has a call for donations, however I can't find how to donate
> anywhere, the closest thing I can find is making a PayPal donation to GIMP
> :-)
>
>
> 2014-04-13 15:40 GMT+02:00 Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>:
>
>> David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:
>> ...
>> >>> Don't we have reserves though? We should have 6 months of operating
>> >>> expenses as reserves.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I should leave maybe this to Kat and other board members but I'm
>> >> recently enough gone that I can answer - the Foundation has adequate
>> >> reserves for GNOME's ordinary operations but not for OPW, and the
>> >> program has ramped up really quickly while the Foundation is still very
>> >> small.
>> >
>> >
>> > That is not correct according to:
>> >
>> >
>> > https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/CurrentBudgetFAQ#What_is_the_problem.3F
>> > That section states "The Foundation does not have any cash reserves
>> > right
>> > now".
>>
>> Blunt statements like this aren't very helpful, and they send a really
>> bad message. It's easy to read this line and think the worst.
>>
>> Clearly we do have protected reserves - which we are preserving by the
>> freeze on sponsorship repayments. The extra reserves that we usually
>> have are expected to recover, and there is a plan in place to ensure
>> this happens. Can we try and clarify this on the wiki please?
>>
>> Allan
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Cheers,
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