Re: Donations to SPI vs associated projects

2015-07-14 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 12 Jul 2015, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On 07/12/2015 12:24 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >- What are the criteria for deciding on the "and/or"? > >- How would money be distributed among projects? > >- What does it mean "as needed"? > > I think this is thinking a bit hard about it. Determi

Re: Donations to SPI vs associated projects

2015-07-14 Thread Henrik Ingo
It seems both the secretary and chairman hold this view, so who am I to disagree. Still, I do have a question and a comment: I assume this opinion takes into account the plans to hire outside help for accounting etc work? If the SPI is sitting on an unnecessarily large pile of cash, a simple way

Re: Donations to SPI vs associated projects

2015-07-14 Thread Jonathan McDowell
On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 12:21:14PM -0600, Bdale Garbee wrote: > Martin Michlmayr writes: > > > I'm not speaking for the board now, but personally I disagree with > > this policy. > > I agree with you. Likewise; I believe it's much better that donors decide which project their money should go to

Re: Donations to SPI vs associated projects

2015-07-14 Thread Anthony Towns
On 13 July 2015 at 05:24, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > >> Donations to SPI that are not marked for a particular project will be > >> distributed to the projects that are currently affiliated with SPI as > >> needed, and/or used for SPI's own expenses. > - What are the criteria for deciding on the

Re: Posting resolutions to spi-announce?

2015-07-14 Thread Zephaniah E. Loss-Cutler-Hull
On 07/11/2015 06:38 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > http://spi-inc.org/meetings/ currently says: > >> Resolutions adopted by the Board are posted to the spi-announce >> mailing list and posted to the resolutions page. > > In reality, resolutions haven't been posted to spi-announce since 2005. > >

Re: Posting resolutions to spi-announce?

2015-07-14 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 09:38:18PM -0400, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > http://spi-inc.org/meetings/ currently says: > > > Resolutions adopted by the Board are posted to the spi-announce > > mailing list and posted to the resolutions page. > > In reality, resolutions haven't been posted to spi-announ