I need to correct a few details.
> 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.
I now realize that I cannot exactly tell the source accounts apart
from each other on the statements I have. But this is hardly
relevant, since I have a mail saying that the donation account was set
up seperately to not confuse it with kd85's business operation
(ie. good fiscal practice). So the donation account records must be
seperatable, and I want to see them.
> 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
these say OPENBSD 4.0 RELEASE PART I dated Feb 28, 2007
OPENBSD 4.0 RELEASE dated Mar 19, 2007
Oops, 4.0 not 4.1; a very late payment. Yet it still is not clear why
the payment was sent to the German donation receiving account. Austin
and I had to resolve this issue carefully, since I cannot receive
payment for CDs, that is business. the payment was supposed to be made
to the Computer Shop, since it is _CD sales business_ and does not
involve me financially.
> 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?
I now see that I cannot discern the exact accounts in use. But the
final transfer is "OVERBOEKING + CLOSING ACCOUNT" for a total sum of
donations from Europe of 2802.48 EUR, for a long enough time that this
cannot be enough.
And remember I also asked what happened to the conference table
donations given to OpenBSD over the last 10 years? Those did not pay
OpenBSD project expenses. Where is that money?
> ps. If other people know of donations made to Wim since April of last
> year, please let me kno
