<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear SLOBS,</div><div><br></div><div>It has just come to my attention Sugar Labs has a Finance Committee.</div><div><br></div><div>Walter,</div><div><br></div><div>You are currently referenced as the <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/Governance/Committees">Sugar Labs Finance Committee Liaison</a> in the SL committees wiki page, please confirm if such Committee is active and/or if any of this information needs to be deprecated.</div><div><br></div><div>I any case I had prepared a Statement of Purpose for the Financial Manager position and hopefully will serve as my application to the Sugar Labs Finance Committee if it is still active;</div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Statement of Purpose to act as Financial Manager [and/or] Sugar Labs Finance Committe Member for Sugar Labs Global Project</b></div><div><b>by Laura Vargas</b></div></div><div><br></div><div>My purpose is to provide Sugar Labs members the <b>service of keeping the Sugar Labs financial reports published on two languages Spanish and English on a timely manner on the Sugar Labs wiki page</b>: <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance" target="_blank">https://wiki.sugarlabs.<wbr>org/go/Finance</a></div><div><br></div><div>I have estimated it will take me <b>~20 monthly hours</b> to perform such task, taking into consideration that:</div><div><br></div><div>* I understand currently the Sugar Labs Project has only one (1) trusted organization with an agreement in effect: non-profit Software Freedom Conservancy in the United States. </div><div><br></div><div>* Software Freedom Conservancy's r<span style="font-size:12.8px">eports publication in the Sugar Labs wiki are due since </span><b style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance">February 2016 </a></b><span style="font-size:12.8px">(1 year and 2 quarters to catch up).</span></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">* To be able to allocate monthly time to the gardening of the Finance wiki page, I would require Sugar Labs to sponsor the time for providing the service and learning to use the commands to extract information from the Ledger file, service that I propose to be provided in the form of a <b>Fellowship with an Stipend </b>[and/or] office expenses, such as Internet connection, maintenance to work equipment, etc. For reference see SLOB's Budget allocation <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/Decisions#2017-08-10">AGREED MOTION</a> 2017-13.</span></div><div><div><br></div><div>I have an <b>Industrial Engineer</b> degree from the "Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería" and a masters degree in <b>English for International Business and Finance</b>, from the "Universidad del Rosario" in Colombia. I also have a <b>Film and TV Producer</b> degree from the "New York Film Academy" in the United States thanks to the Ministry of Culture of Colombia and the Fulbright Scholarship Program back in 2005. I gained large budget management skills while working in the Film industry.</div></div><div><br></div><div>I have contributed to Free/Libre Software projects, specifically to Sugar Labs since 2009. On the way I have lead many successful events, projects and products, like Sugar Camp Lima and the resultant multi-native-languages OS Image "Hexoquinasa" currently deployed among +40,000 learners on field.</div><div><br></div><div>I have many motivations to contribute to the successful execution of the Sugar Labs project. </div><div><br></div><b>Financial reports publication has become a critical task as currently there are</b> <a href="https://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance">no updated numbers</a>. <div><br></div><div>Defined responsible parties for financial reports publication will benefit largely the Project Leadership Committe and will hopefully activate more collaboration in the development of quality "libre" software for children. </div><div><br></div><div>Regards and thanks in advance for your consideration.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- <br><div class="gmail-m_-2767971195623587545gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Laura V.<br><font color="#ff00ff"><b>
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