On Sat, 11 Jul 2015, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
The SPI donations page at http://spi-inc.org/donations/ currently
says:
These donations can be made to SPI directly, or they can be marked
for use by a particular member project. It is preferred that the
donations be made to SPI, as they can then b
I probably have some useful expertise to share on this thread, speaking
less as a mundane SPI member, but more from my day-job at Conservancy.
Conservancy and SPI are very close in the core of what we do, although
we do it very differently (which is good -- it gives projects two very
different opt
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
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
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
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
Martin Michlmayr writes:
> I'm not speaking for the board now, but personally I disagree with
> this policy.
I agree with you.
Bdale
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I agree completely.
-hilmar
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> On Jul 12, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
>
> I think SPI should just let donors decide to which affiliate project
> donate; serving those projects is the main reason of SPI's existence
> after all. If SPI needs to increase its own fund
On 07/12/2015 12:24 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 08:52:20AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
I think we should keep the policy and actually do what it says.
I agree that would be an improvement, but at least this part of the
policy is too vague to be useful for donors:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 08:52:20AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I think we should keep the policy and actually do what it says.
I agree that would be an improvement, but at least this part of the
policy is too vague to be useful for donors:
>> Donations to SPI that are not marked for a particu
On 07/11/2015 06:45 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
The SPI donations page at http://spi-inc.org/donations/ currently
says:
These donations can be made to SPI directly, or they can be marked
for use by a particular member project. It is preferred that the
donations be made to SPI, as they can th
I agree with Martin. What's particularly troubling IMO about this
recommendation is that there seems to be no process at all through which
projects can submit proposals for receiving funds, and according to which such
proposals would get reviewed, evaluated, and prioritized. Until that's in
pla
The SPI donations page at http://spi-inc.org/donations/ currently
says:
> These donations can be made to SPI directly, or they can be marked
> for use by a particular member project. It is preferred that the
> donations be made to SPI, as they can then be used wherever the need
> is greatest. Don
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