<html> <head> <style></style></head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>+ 1 to Sam P.<br><br><hr>Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:28:23 +1000<br>From: sam.parkinson3@gmail.com<br>To: laura@somosazucar.org<br>CC: iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org; slobs@lists.sugarlabs.org; olpc-sur@lists.laptop.org; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org; dave@lab6.com<br>Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss<br><br>I'm not a big fan of this idea.<div><br></div><div>The SLOBs already seem to have some capital. But they seem to be scared to spend it. How much arguing have we done over the translation co-ordinator position? Something like a translation position would be great, but nobody has seemed to actually do anything to put in into action.</div><div><br></div><div>Meanwhile, Sugar continues to evolve. Us volunteers write code, make releases, do user testing, etc. This is not stuff that the SLOBs has helped with, not in a way that I am aware of at lest.</div><div><br></div><div>Is a membership fee for volunteers even something that any other Free Software orgs do? GNOME doesn't seem to.</div><div><br></div><div>So my opinion is that the SLOBS should do something before seeking to raise additional funding, especially in this odd way.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Sam<br><div><div><div><br>On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Laura Vargas <laura@somosazucar.org> wrote:<br> <blockquote><div dir=ltr><br><div class=ecxgmail_extra><br><div class=ecxgmail_quote>2016-05-12 2:08 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <span dir=ltr><<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com" target=_blank>dave@lab6.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class=ecxgmail_quote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir=ltr><div class=ecxgmail_extra><span><br><div class=ecxgmail_quote>On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas <span dir=ltr><<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org" target=_blank>laura@somosazucar.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=ecxgmail_quote style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among activities/teams/projects etc.</blockquote></div><br></span>I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led directly to further income, to grow the project.</div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>I agree that there is a need for income strategies as well. Still, the idea of annual budget is to plan the expenses so that the most areas of an organization can produce results in what they do.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be ideal to count with a somehow stable basic income, and therefore it would make sense to promote a motion for Lionel's idea of a yearly membership fee. Of course it would have to contemplate the exemptions of minors and members who actually don't have resources to pay.</div><div><br></div><div>Been more than 80 members, a yearly fee of US$100 with an estimated ~50% of exemptions would put in SL general fund ~US$4.000 per year, probably enough for basic operations. </div><div> </div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class=ecxgmail_signature>Laura V.<br> I&D SomosAZUCAR.Org<br> <br> Identi.ca/Skype acaire<br> IRC kaametza<br><br>Happy Learning!<br><br></div> </div></div> </blockquote></div></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel </div></body> </html>