[IAEP] Motion: To appoint Volunteer Laura Vargas as Sugar Labs Financial Manager [was Re: [SLOBS] URGENT action needed]

[Adam Holt]

On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:30 AM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> FYI Laura,
>
> I did not receive any training/mentoring and as far as I know nobody else
> in Sugar Labs has either.  I have published all the ledger commands here,
> that I know of to hopefully get you started: http://lists.sugarlabs.org/
> archive/iaep/2017-August/019935.html
>
> PS a quarterly financial report makes Far More Sense that monthly voodoo /
> feel-good economics, when most transactions are reported at highly
> uncertain times many months after the fact.  20 hours...
>

Clarif: 20 hours/month of anybody's time [is a bad use of anybody's time in
my opinion, to accomplish the stated goal of a quarterly financial report]

to repeatedly run the same numbers is an extremely bad use of anybody's
> time in my opinion, particularly as there are many months with no
> transactions at all.
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2017-09-08 7:39 GMT-05:00 Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>:
>>
>>> On Sep 8, 2017 7:43 AM, "Laura Vargas" <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2017-08-14 23:51 GMT-05:00 Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org>:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Karen for please responding to these 3 emails I sent you when
>>>> possible:
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> - Aug 9 subject line "Samson Goddy asks for visa supporting docs for
>>>> GSoC visit to USA" [so that his visa is less likely to be denied, as
>>>> happened around mid-June with the French Embassy]
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Adam,
>>>
>>> Am puzzled.
>>>
>>> If board decision on this motion 2017-08-13
>>> <https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions#2017-08-13>
>>> was not to approve the travel,
>>>
>>>
>>> You are confusing apples and oranges.
>>>
>>> Apples: The board did not approve a large $627.05 loan/advance to
>>> Samson for travel within Nigeria to attempt to get a US visa.  This large
>>> personal loan/advance was denied in no small part because it could
>>> disappear, if for example the US denies a visa to Samson, similar to what
>>> happened in June with his failed attempt to get a French visa for a Scratch
>>> conference.
>>>
>>> Oranges: Nobody (or nobody in their right mind anyway) is suggesting
>>> Samson should not travel internationally to attend the GSoC mentor summit
>>> in the San Francisco Bay Area Oct 13-15, 2017 as soon as the US visa is
>>> hopefully sorted out soon.  Hopefully Samson can give us an update in the
>>> coming week.
>>>
>>> why are you making related requests to the Conservancy?
>>>
>>>
>>> So that his US visa is less likely to be denied, as happened around
>>> mid-June with the French Embassy.  Thankfully the SFConservancy has
>>> assisted Samson here (AFAIK, Samson can hopefully clarify).
>>>
>>> How about Sugar Labs use its talents to move forward instead of
>>> continually relitigating the past?
>>>
>>> Can we take a pause to consider that for 2018?
>>>
>>
>> Adam,
>>
>> *Thanks to your clarification I know understand you are only requiring
>> documentation and not a transaction and I guess that is OK.*
>>
>> Although I have been granted access to Sugar Labs ledger file, I still
>> have no training nor knowledge to use the commands to obtain reports and
>> publish them properly in the wiki so that community can have access to
>> Sugar Labs Financial reports.
>>
>> If you are willing to mentor me in the use of the ledger commands, I may
>> be able to dedicate weekly time to the Financial Manager position and
>> assume the responsibility of learning and documenting all the how to's for
>> publishing Sugar Labs financial reports at the wiki :D
>>
>> *Motion: To appoint Sugar Labs Oversight Board member Laura Vargas as
>> Sugar Labs Financial Manager with a monthly stipend of US$ 200 in
>> accordance with *AGREED MOTION 2017-13*. *
>>
>> I hope we can work together and publish solid financial reports soon.
>> Feel free to modify up or down the amount of the stipend. I estimated this
>> task will require to start at least twenty (20) monthly hours of high
>> concentration since I have to learn all the procedures.
>>
>> I also hope to count with anyone interested in making this process
>> automated from the ledger file to the wiki publication in the mid-short
>> term.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
>> Laura V.
>> * I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org*
>>
>> “Solo la tecnología libre nos hará libres.”
>> ~ L. Victoria
>>
>> Happy Learning!
>> #LearningByDoing
>> #Projects4good
>> #IDesignATSugarLabs
>> #WeCanDoBetter
>>
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