[IAEP] [SLOBS] Motion 2017-08-10: Sugar Labs Financial Manager to have a monthly compensation
James Cameron
quozl at laptop.org
Fri Aug 11 20:24:32 EDT 2017
Use the word "stipend" instead of "compensation", as the word
"stipend" is part of the 2016-07 motion.
Which reminds me, the 2016-07 motion began;
"The Sugar Labs Oversight Board shall appoint a Finance Manager by
majority vote from among the members of Sugar Labs Oversight Board."
There's a bit of ambiguity here, because of missing comma. Google
Oakhurst Dairy for cost of missing commas. The phrase "from among the
members of the Sugar Labs Oversight Board" could mean either;
a. a board member is appointed to be the Finance Manager, or
b. the majority vote must be by board members.
If the interpretation is "a", then you are proposing a motion to
attract a board member to be a Finance Manager.
However, you have said in this thread "with the community an open
call", so your interpretation is that any member can be appointed?
Or any non-member?
Overall, cart before horse error. With the 2016-07 motion ineffective
to date, it is quite likely your new motion will be ineffective.
Perhaps better idea is to call for volunteers for the role of Finance
Manager at $USD 100 per month, and once you have a volunteer move the
motion to appoint them with the $USD 100 stipend.
As a board member you have both the responsibility and the authority
to make such a call for volunteers now, without any further motion,
but with the caveat that the board will make final decision.
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:49:06AM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote:
>
> 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][1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
> 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][2]
> 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] [3]https://www.energizeinc.com/ar
> t/
> > 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][4]iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org> on behalf
> of Tony
> > Anderson <[8][5]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] [6]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> go/
> > Oversight_Board/Decisions July 1, 2016.
> >
> > [10]Oversight Board/Decisions - Sugar Labs
> > [11][7]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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> > Walter Bender
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> > [17]
> >
> > References:
> >
> > [1] mailto:[13]samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org
> > [2] mailto:[14]laura at somosazucar.org
> > [3] [15]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Report
> ing_Standards
> > [4] [16]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [5] mailto:[17]cbigenho at hotmail.com
> > [6] [18]https://www.energizeinc.com/art/treasurers-report
> > [7] mailto:[19]iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [8] mailto:[20]tony_anderson at usa.net
> > [9] [21]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [10] [22]https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> > [11] [23]http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> > [12] mailto:[24]IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [13] [25]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> > [14] mailto:[26]SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> > [15] [27]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs
> > [16] [28]http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> > [17] [29]http://www.sugarlabs.org/
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> Laura V.
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>
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> References:
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Report
> [2] mailto:cbigenho at hotmail.com
> [3] https://www.energizeinc.com/art/
> [4] mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [5] mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net
> [6] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/
> [7] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> [8] mailto:IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [9] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
> [10] mailto:SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [11] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs
> [12] http://www.sugarlabs.org/
> [13] mailto:samsongoddy at sugarlabs.org
> [14] mailto:laura at somosazucar.org
> [15] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Reporting_Standards
> [16] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> [17] mailto:cbigenho at hotmail.com
> [18] https://www.energizeinc.com/art/treasurers-report
> [19] mailto:iaep-bounces at lists.sugarlabs.org
> [20] mailto:tony_anderson at usa.net
> [21] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> [22] https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions
> [23] http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
> [24] mailto:IAEP at lists.sugarlabs.org
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> [26] mailto:SLOBs at lists.sugarlabs.org
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