[IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion 2017-08-10: Sugar Labs Financial Manager to have a monthly compensation

Laura Vargas laura at somosazucar.org
Fri Aug 11 10:49:06 EDT 2017


Hello SLOBS and all!

Motion has already 2 in favor (Samson and Laura) and two against (Walter
and Ignacio).

Please Lionel , Sameer, Adam help us make a decision by stating your vote
or suggesting modifications to the motion.

I propose we start the debate of the base compensation with an amount of
US$100 per month. The main task has been clearly defined as *1 complete
financial report per quarter and it's publication on the Sugar Labs Finance
Wiki page *maximum 30 calendar days after the end of the period.

The next step would be to share with the community an *"open call for
candidates for the Sugar Labs Financial Manager role"*. I volunteer in
advance to give a hand with this.


Regards and cheers,

Laura V


>
> >         Motion: Sugar Labs Financial Manager will have a monthly
> compensation
> >         of US$ TBD in exchange for:
> >         1 complete financial report per quarter and it's publication on
> the
> >         Sugar Labs Finance Wiki page maximum 30 calendar days after the
> end of
> >         the period. The format to be used should be compatible with the
> >         International Financial Reporting Standards* or it's equivalent
> in the
> >         U.S..
> >
> >         *see [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
> ki/International_Financial_Report
> >         ing_Standards
> >
> >         To approve the proposed motion simplifies the [4]July, 2016
> SLOB's
> >         motion/decision,  assigns a monthly compensation for the
> Financial
> >         Manager and above all, assures community has timely access to
> reports.
> >
> >
> >         I hope another SLOB can second the motion in order to start
> voting.
> >         Suggestions to define the value are also welcome from all,
> specially
> >         from Adam :D
> >
> >         Below I pasted some extracts from background emailing about the
> subject
> >         in case anyone interested in reading.
> >
> >
> >         Regards and blessings,
> >
> >         Laura V
> >
> >
> >         2017-08-05 19:31 GMT-05:00 Caryl Bigenho <[5]
> cbigenho at hotmail.com>:
> >
> >
> >             Hi All...
> >
> >             There was (and still seems to be) a lot of confusion
> regarding the
> >             topic of a treasurer's report. I think the main problem is
> that
> >             most of you are thinking of the SugarLabs "Books" (a big
> ledger
> >             will all the personal identifying information Adam was
> referring
> >             to) instead of a simple "Treasurers  Report" which just
> includes
> >             the pertinent information without all the identifying
> details. The
> >             former, the "books," should be available to the SLOBs on
> request on
> >             a view only basis as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The
> >             latter, the Treasurer's Report, should be available to all
> Sugar
> >             Labs members and other interested parties as appropriate.
> >
> >             Maybe it is all the years I have spent in many types of
> >             organizations (4H, Girl Scouts, homeowner's organizations,
> >             teacher's orgs, Sierra Club groups, etc.) that make this
> seem very
> >             familiar, simple, and straightforward. Hopefully the
> information
> >             below can help make it work well for Sugar Labs as well.
> >
> >             A quick Google search turns up this list of criteria for a
> simple
> >             monthly treasurer's report. It says it should include:
> >
> >              1. the name of the organization.
> >              2. the period which the report covers.
> >              3. the cash balance at the beginning of the period.
> >              4. the income received during the period (with sources)
> >              5. the expenses paid during the period (with what it was
> for and
> >                 who was paid ... name only, no PII).
> >              6. the cash balance at the end of the period.
> >              7. the signature of the treasurer.
> >             Another easy to follow resource is this description of how
> to put
> >             such a report together: [6] https://www.energizeinc.com/art/
> >             treasurers-report
> >
> >             (Note: the sample they refer to in this is missing... you
> have to
> >             buy the book to see it!).
> >
> >             Yesterday's financial report was very confusing and seeing
> Adam's
> >             email just seemed to make it worse. Maybe going forward we
> can
> >             simplify and we all will know what is happening. Oh, and by
> the
> >             way, there is no need to make the Income negative and the
> Expenses
> >             positive. This is for us, not the SFC.
> >
> >             Caryl
> >
> >             ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
> ━━━━━━━━
> >             From: IAEP <[7]iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org> on behalf
> of Tony
> >             Anderson <[8]tony_anderson at usa.net>
> >             Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 1:07:55 AM
> >             To: SLOBs; IAEP SugarLabs
> >             Subject: [IAEP] Meeting August 4, 2017
> >
> >
> >             I am amazed at the discussion on finance.
> >
> >             The governing bylaw is at [9] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/
> >             Oversight_Board/Decisions July 1, 2016.
> >
> >             [10]Oversight Board/Decisions - Sugar Labs
> >             [11]wiki.sugarlabs.org
> >             This page (largely complete) is intended to be a one-stop
> place for
> >             reviewing all of the Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB)
> actions and
> >             decisions.
> >
> >             Our Finance Manager is Adam Holt. He must authorize every
> petty
> >             cash transaction (<$200) and the board must approve all other
> >             transactions.
> >
> >             I am sure that in a given quarter, the number of approved
> >             transactions is less than a dozen.
> >
> >             The quarterly report is the starting balance, transactions
> >             reporting receipts, transactions reporting expenses, and an
> ending
> >             balance.
> >
> >             I suspect all of this could be could be recorded on fewer
> than a
> >             dozen 80 column punched cards. (About 10^-6 GB).
> >
> >             Tony
> >
> >
> >         #WeCanDoBetter
> >
> >         _______________________________________________
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> >
> >     _______________________________________________
> >     SLOBs mailing list
> >     [14]SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> >     [15]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs
> >
> > --
> > Walter Bender
> > Sugar Labs
> > [16]http://www.sugarlabs.org
> > [17]
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org
> > [2] mailto:laura at somosazucar.org
> > [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Report
> ing_Standards
> > [4] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [5] mailto:cbigenho at hotmail.com
> > [6] https://www.energizeinc.com/art/treasurers-report
> > [7] mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [8] mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net
> > [9] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [10] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [11] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> > [12] mailto:IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [13] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> > [14] mailto:SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [15] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs
> > [16] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> > [17] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
>
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>
> --
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> http://quozl.netrek.org/
>



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