[IAEP] [SLOBS] Updates of Sugar Labs' finances?

[Christoph Derndorfer]

Am 08.11.2011 02:37, schrieb Walter Bender:
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
> <e0425826 at student.tuwien.ac.at>  wrote:
>> Am 02.11.2011 18:50, schrieb Walter Bender:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Mel Chua<mel at melchua.com>    wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> As a member of the Sugar Labs community I find it quite frustrating that
>>>>> such basic information doesn't seem to be readily available (at least
>>>>> not on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance where one would expect to
>>>>> find it).
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, it is encouraging that Rubén's and Aleksey's recent funding
>>>>> requests for Sugar Camp Lima were quickly acted and decided upon.
>>>>> However I would assume that such decisions involve a quick look at the
>>>>> current account balance which makes it all the less understandable why
>>>>> the corresponding wiki page doesn't contain that information.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, the reason I *didn't* vote on that funding request was because
>>>> I
>>>> (as a member of SLOBs) could not find that information either, and didn't
>>>> feel comfortable approving funding without knowing what our budget
>>>> picture
>>>> actually was.
>>>>
>>>> So Christoph, I do agree with you.
>>>
>>> Mel, I believe that as a SLOBs member you get the same reports from
>>> the SFC as the rest of us.
>>>
>>> # On 31 July 2011, Total assets restricted for Sugar
>>> $ /usr/bin/ledger -f /tmp/5mKPnnXTFW/sugar.ledger -e 2011/08/01 bal
>>> '^Assets'
>>>
>>>          $ 21,141.78  Assets
>>>
>>> We don't have a more recent figure, but we also haven't incurred any
>>> major expenses in the interim. This approximate number was mentioned
>>> in a recent SLOBs meeting when the question of funds as raised.
>>>
>>> Christoph, would you like to volunteer to maintain a public version of
>>> our finances? We are shorthanded in this department and it seems to be
>>> an area of interest.
>>
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> thanks a lot for the update and apologies for the slow reply.
>>
>> I just updated http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance#Current_finances with
>> the balance mentioned above and the information from Bernie's update
>> (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-November/014354.html).
>>
>> Looking through these messages I was wondering what is the status of those
>> Gould Grant efforts was?
>>
>> Searching through the wiki shows that the grant was awarded in June of 2009
>> for the SoaS project in Boston
>> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Archive/Current_Events/2009-06-15). Then the
>> next, and last, mention of it is from January 2010 where you considered
>> asking them to see whether it can be used for infrastructure related
>> expenses
>> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010/Meeting_Log-2010-01-29).
>
> The project has morphed into a new phase. Carolyn is working with a
> Haitian diaspora community. She could I am sure give you an update.
> Her principal focus has been working with Etoys.

Interesting, can't wait to hear more details! :-)

>> And you're certainly right, this is indeed an area of interest (though
>> admittedly only really since I've been forced to start dealing with finances
>> at OLPC Austria;-). If one of the SLOBs could simply keep me posted of
>> relevant information and updates by forwarding the relevant updates from SFC
>> I'd be happy to keep http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance up to date.
>> (However I of course don't want to step on Bernie's toes since he's taking
>> care of finances as well.)
>
> I may have unearthed someone with experience in finance who will take
> this one for us.

Okay, keep us in the loop about what's happening on this front.

Thanks,
Christoph

> -walter
>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Christoph
>>
>> --
>> Christoph Derndorfer
>>
>> editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
>> volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]
>>
>> e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu
>>
>
>
>

-- 
Christoph Derndorfer

editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com]
volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at]

e-mail: christoph at derndorfer.eu