> Having some sort of Report once a year about Donation Money or even also the
> CD and Shirt Sales money and where it goes would help to shut up even the
> most ignorant. Reports possibly ala' FreeBSD Foundation; but if not, not; i
> personally have no doubt that you are the last Guy how would enrich himself
> on Money donated to OpenBSD, screw that.
Out of donations received by me, a rough accounting. I am estimating
parts of it because I cannot make time to dig through the file.
c2k8
[the foundation paid for the hackspace/sleepspace]
~7 developers had their travel paid, $11,000
p2k8
11 developers paid their own travel
2 had their travel paid from donations - $1800
hotel - a bit less than $5000, if I recall
h2k8
11 developers paid their own travel
5 had their travel paid from donations - $4000
hotel - a bit less than $8000
n2k9
16 developers paid their own travel
3 had their travel paid from donations - $3000
hotel - a bit more than $8000, if I recall right
c2k9
[the foundation will pay for the hackspace/sleepspace]
6 developers flights already paid - $10,000
Anyone upset about their donations being spent that way? If you want
to know how we all benefited from the spending donnation money on the
hackathons please look at http://www.openbsd.org/plus.html and follow
the release links at the top to; bracket the hackathons before the
release, and you can guess what happened at a particular hackathon.
I don't know how big people think the donations are, but sure, it is
substantial. Yet it is not as much as these amounts above. The
remaining is paid out of my salary, and yes, my salary is CD sales
dependent. And yes, everyone including Nadine thinks that is a
ridiculous situation, but so it is.
As can be seen above, other expenses are handled by the OpenBSD
Foundation, which is financially entirely independent of me. I have
no say over what they do. Like you all, I can simply thank them for
accepting contributions in the way they are fiscally permitted to, and
then helping to pay for the things which they deem worthy. For
instance, the big hackathons are run by them. Hopefully some smaller
ones eventually, too.
When you see me in another thread mentioning that Wim only
transferring 1000+2402 EUR donation money to the project for the last
5 years or so, you can get a clearer picture. Since all the other
things he bought for OpenBSD over the the last 5+ years have now been
charged back to the Computer Shop, it is just not plausible that this
is the sum of donations from Europe. Is Europe that cheap, or is
there another explanation?
A note -- this money is received as gifts. Then it is spent against
project things, and each expenditure of course it generates a receipt.
But that receipt cannot be written off against anyone's taxes. And it
isn't. Doing so would be fraud. It isn't an expense since there is
no income.
It is a zero sum game, except for the Aeroplan points :)
