Hi, On Sun Jun 21, 2020 at 19:02:06 -0400, Michael Schultheiss wrote: > Luca Filipozzi wrote: > > @all: Having slept on things, I'm changing my position from (2a) to (2c) > > since it is more appropriate to correct the lack of charging Debian 5% > > on sponsorships than it is to correct the actual/perceived > > miscommunication between Debian and SPI. > > > > So, for clarity: > > - do not refund Debian for 2016-2019; do not charge fees on Debian > > sponsorships prior to 2016; do not refund other projects (2c) > > - charge all projects' donations and sponsorships the same 5% fee, which > > is the current practice (3b) > > > > @president: kindly consider revising the draft resolution per above > > since there are now several of us in holding this view. > Resolution 2020-06-22.mcs.1: > Conferences and SPI 5% fee > > WHEREAS > > 1. Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI) is a Debian Trusted > Organization. > > 2. The annual Debian Conference (Debian) utilizes SPI to collect > some of the conference sponsorship funds. > > 3. SPI has inconsistently charged its 5% administrative fee for > conference sponsorships. > > 4. SPI has not yet determined the effect of waiving the 5% > administrative fee for conference sponsorships in perpetuity. > > THE SPI BOARD RESOLVES THAT > > 1. Going forward, SPI will consistently charge all projects donations > and conference sponsorships a 5% administrative fee, as is SPI's > current practice. > > 2. SPI will not retroactively charge Debian its 5% adminsitrative fee for > Debian conferences held prior to 2016. > > 3. SPI will not refund associated projects the 5% adminsitrative fee for > conferences held 2016-2019.
This resolution still has not addressed my concern, that this resolution speaks about Debian / DebConf only here, while we also have other associated projects, that might also be affected. Best regards, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@spi-inc.org> Software in the Public Interest, Inc. | Member of the Board of Directors GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
