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 <eba...@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 <ar...@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 <allanp...@gmail.com>: > > > >> David King <amigad...@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 > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-list mailing list > >> foundation-list@gnome.org > >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Alberto Ruiz > > > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-list mailing list > > foundation-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list > > > > > > -- > W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.name > B: http://blogs.gnome.org/ebassi/ > -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz
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