<div dir="ltr"><div><div><span></span><br></div>Hello SLOBS and all!<br><br></div><div>Motion has already 2 in favor (Samson and Laura) and two against (Walter and Ignacio).</div><div><br>Please Lionel , Sameer, Adam help us make a decision by stating your vote or suggesting modifications to the motion.<br><br></div><div>I propose we start the debate of the base compensation with an amount of US$100 per month. The main task has been clearly defined as <b><span>1 complete financial report per quarter and it's publication on the Sugar Labs Finance Wiki page </span></b><span>maximum 30 calendar days after the end of the period.</span> <br> <br>The next step would be to share with the community an <b>"open call for candidates for the Sugar Labs Financial Manager role"</b>. I volunteer in advance to give a hand with this.<br><br><br></div><div>Regards and cheers,<br><br></div><div>Laura V<br></div><div><div><br><span></span><span></span><br><span></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span> ><br> > Motion: Sugar Labs Financial Manager will have a monthly compensation<br> > of US$ TBD in exchange for:<br> > 1 complete financial report per quarter and it's publication on the<br> > Sugar Labs Finance Wiki page maximum 30 calendar days after the end of<br> > the period. The format to be used should be compatible with the<br> > International Financial Reporting Standards* or it's equivalent in the<br> > U.S..<br> ><br> </span>> *see [3]<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Report" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wi<wbr>ki/International_Financial_Rep<wbr>ort</a><br> > ing_Standards<br> ><br> > To approve the proposed motion simplifies the [4]July, 2016 SLOB's<br> <span>> motion/decision, assigns a monthly compensation for the Financial<br> > Manager and above all, assures community has timely access to reports.<br> ><br> ><br> > I hope another SLOB can second the motion in order to start voting.<br> > Suggestions to define the value are also welcome from all, specially<br> > from Adam :D<br> ><br> > Below I pasted some extracts from background emailing about the subject<br> > in case anyone interested in reading.<br> ><br> ><br> > Regards and blessings,<br> ><br> > Laura V<br> ><br> ><br> </span><span>> 2017-08-05 19:31 GMT-05:00 Caryl Bigenho <[5]<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>>:<br> ><br> ><br> > Hi All...<br> ><br> > There was (and still seems to be) a lot of confusion regarding the<br> > topic of a treasurer's report. I think the main problem is that<br> > most of you are thinking of the SugarLabs "Books" (a big ledger<br> > will all the personal identifying information Adam was referring<br> > to) instead of a simple "Treasurers Report" which just includes<br> > the pertinent information without all the identifying details. The<br> > former, the "books," should be available to the SLOBs on request on<br> > a view only basis as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. The<br> > latter, the Treasurer's Report, should be available to all Sugar<br> > Labs members and other interested parties as appropriate.<br> ><br> > Maybe it is all the years I have spent in many types of<br> > organizations (4H, Girl Scouts, homeowner's organizations,<br> > teacher's orgs, Sierra Club groups, etc.) that make this seem very<br> > familiar, simple, and straightforward. Hopefully the information<br> > below can help make it work well for Sugar Labs as well.<br> ><br> > A quick Google search turns up this list of criteria for a simple<br> > monthly treasurer's report. It says it should include:<br> ><br> </span>> 1. the name of the organization.<br> > 2. the period which the report covers.<br> > 3. the cash balance at the beginning of the period.<br> > 4. the income received during the period (with sources)<br> > 5. the expenses paid during the period (with what it was for and<br> <span>> who was paid ... name only, no PII).<br> </span>> 6. the cash balance at the end of the period.<br> > 7. the signature of the treasurer.<br> <span>> Another easy to follow resource is this description of how to put<br> </span>> such a report together: [6] <a href="https://www.energizeinc.com/art/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.energizeinc.com/ar<wbr>t/</a><br> > treasurers-report<br> <span>><br> > (Note: the sample they refer to in this is missing... you have to<br> > buy the book to see it!).<br> ><br> > Yesterday's financial report was very confusing and seeing Adam's<br> > email just seemed to make it worse. Maybe going forward we can<br> > simplify and we all will know what is happening. Oh, and by the<br> > way, there is no need to make the Income negative and the Expenses<br> > positive. This is for us, not the SFC.<br> ><br> > Caryl<br> ><br> </span>> ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<wbr>━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━<wbr>━━━━━━━━<br> > From: IAEP <[7]<a href="mailto:iaep-bounces@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep-bounces@lists.sugarla<wbr>bs.org</a>> on behalf of Tony<br> > Anderson <[8]<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a>><br> <span>> Sent: Saturday, August 5, 2017 1:07:55 AM<br> > To: SLOBs; IAEP SugarLabs<br> > Subject: [IAEP] Meeting August 4, 2017<br> > <br> ><br> > I am amazed at the discussion on finance.<br> ><br> </span>> The governing bylaw is at [9] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/</a><br> > Oversight_Board/Decisions July 1, 2016.<br> ><br> > [10]Oversight Board/Decisions - Sugar Labs<br> > [11]<a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">wiki.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <span>> This page (largely complete) is intended to be a one-stop place for<br> > reviewing all of the Sugar Labs oversight board (SLOB) actions and<br> > decisions.<br> ><br> > Our Finance Manager is Adam Holt. He must authorize every petty<br> > cash transaction (<$200) and the board must approve all other<br> > transactions.<br> ><br> > I am sure that in a given quarter, the number of approved<br> > transactions is less than a dozen.<br> ><br> > The quarterly report is the starting balance, transactions<br> > reporting receipts, transactions reporting expenses, and an ending<br> > balance.<br> ><br> > I suspect all of this could be could be recorded on fewer than a<br> </span>> dozen 80 column punched cards. (About 10^-6 GB).<br> <span>><br> > Tony<br> ><br> ><br> > #WeCanDoBetter<br> ><br> > _____________________________<wbr>__________________<br> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> </span>> [12]<a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > [13]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.or<wbr>g/listinfo/iaep</a><br> ><br> > _____________________________<wbr>__________________<br> > SLOBs mailing list<br> > [14]<a href="mailto:SLOBs@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">SLOBs@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > [15]<a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.or<wbr>g/listinfo/slobs</a><br> <span>><br> > --<br> > Walter Bender<br> > Sugar Labs<br> </span>> [16]<a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > [17]<br> ><br> > References:<br> ><br> > [1] mailto:<a href="mailto:samsongoddy@sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">samsongoddy@sugarlabs.o<wbr>rg</a><br> > [2] mailto:<a href="mailto:laura@somosazucar.org" target="_blank">laura@somosazucar.org</a><br> > [3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Financial_Reporting_Standards" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>International_Financial_Report<wbr>ing_Standards</a><br> > [4] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Oversight_Board/Decisions</a><br> > [5] mailto:<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com" target="_blank">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a><br> > [6] <a href="https://www.energizeinc.com/art/treasurers-report" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.energizeinc.com/ar<wbr>t/treasurers-report</a><br> > [7] mailto:<a href="mailto:iaep-bounces@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">iaep-bounces@lists.suga<wbr>rlabs.org</a><br> > [8] mailto:<a href="mailto:tony_anderson@usa.net" target="_blank">tony_anderson@usa.net</a><br> > [9] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Oversight_Board/Decisions</a><br> > [10] <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/<wbr>Oversight_Board/Decisions</a><br> > [11] <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/</a><br> > [12] mailto:<a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.or<wbr>g</a><br> > [13] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/lis<wbr>tinfo/iaep</a><br> > [14] mailto:<a href="mailto:SLOBs@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">SLOBs@lists.sugarlabs.o<wbr>rg</a><br> > [15] <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/slobs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/lis<wbr>tinfo/slobs</a><br> > [16] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br> > [17] <a href="http://www.sugarlabs.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sugarlabs.org/</a><br> <div class="gmail-m_8346041849253664009HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_8346041849253664009h5"><br> > ______________________________<wbr>_________________<br> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!)<br> > <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org" target="_blank">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> > <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/lis<wbr>tinfo/iaep</a><br> <br> <br> </div></div><span class="gmail-m_8346041849253664009HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br> James Cameron<br> <a href="http://quozl.netrek.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://quozl.netrek.org/</a><br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br><br 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