I have been in commuinication with a few people who have told me stories that Wim received donations, obviously meant for the OpenBSD project, collected at European conference tables -- and that this money has not made it to the OpenBSD project. These reports are not coming from people who gave these donatiosn, but from people who collected them at tables and gave them to Wim to give to the project.
The amounts are not large, but this should not be happening. These transactions happened after the last time that Wim transferred money to the project in April 8, 2008. These transactions could not have come to the project in any other way that we are aware of, since the Computer Shop and Wim stopped doing transfers of donation money directly quite a while back since there were problems with that system. There is no other way this money made it to the project that we can think of. So Wim, where is the donation money from those events? therefore, I would like a record of all donation money ever accepted into the Belgian Bank account on behalf of the OpenBSD project. You set up a special Belgian bank account just for this purpose, so I am certain you can provide me with the official bank statements so that I can check them over. I would also like a report about the money ever collected at conference events. If you cannot come up with exact figures, I will accept estimates. Thank you very much for getting that report to me soon. I know what you transferred to the project on Dec 15, 2006 and on April 8, 2008 (when you apparently closed that account), but I do not believe there is any possible way that the sum of donations for the entire period could only be so little. The amount seems extremely low, basically it boggles the mind to think that the Belgian account pulled in donations at less than 10% the rate that the replacement German bank account pulls it in. All this donation money received by you, of course, was not spent by you on anything for the OpenBSD project. How so? Ok, everyone stay with me for a second here and let me explain. When kd85 (Wim's company) was found to be very late in payments to the Computer Shop, Wim and Austin and I came to an agreement where all the previous OpenBSD project bills paid by Wim in Europe were requested by Austin, and then those bills were considered as credit against kd85's debt. All the spending kd85 / Wim did in the past which was approved by me was credited; and thus these things were paid for by the Computer Shop. Furthermore, the Computer Shop even accepted some bills that had not been approved; Austin convinced me to be generous in this regard. (The Computer Shop went further, and purchased back almost all of Wim's old CDs, too, as a credit against his debt). Yet even after that operation done last year, kd85's debt still remains substantial. Understand what this means -- it means all the things ever bought for the OpenBSD project in Europe were paid for by the Computer Shop. So I ask -- did you buy things for the project out of the Belgian donation account? Then, when the Computer Shop came asking for receipts, did you submit receipts which were in fact paid for by the donation account, but which the Computer Shop was now credited against your company's debt? You will surely say no, but I remain sceptical. I would also like an explanation of why two transactions of 5,000 EUR were made from the Belgian donation account with an annotation saying that they were paying for "OpenBSD 4.1". The sale of OpenBSD CDs was a kd85 business, and had nothing to do with donations. So why would you have transferred money from the donation account to pay for a debt owed by your business? ps. If other people know of donations made to Wim since April of last year, please let me kno
