[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] [SLOBS] [SLOB] meeting reminder and some open issues to discuss

[Sam Parkinson]

I'm not a big fan of this idea.

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.

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.

Is a membership fee for volunteers even something that any other Free 
Software orgs do?  GNOME doesn't seem to.

So my opinion is that the SLOBS should do something before seeking to 
raise additional funding, especially in this odd way.

Thanks,
Sam

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> 2016-05-12 2:08 GMT+08:00 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
>> 
>> On 11 May 2016 at 14:05, Laura Vargas <laura at somosazucar.org> wrote:
>>> there are ~US$65,000 available for planning/distributing among 
>>> activities/teams/projects etc.
>> 
>> I think its essential that this be spent in ways that led directly 
>> to further income, to grow the project.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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