On 13 October 2010 14:54, Drew Jensen <d...@baseanswers.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:31 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: > > > > > Maybe it's a little early but... > > > I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the > > > website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for example, > wikimedia: > > > > > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report > > > > > > I think transparency is a good way to show TDF is working well... and, > > > in my opinion, it also invites people to donate more money. > > > Namaste :) > > > > +1 > > > > I have been asking for this from the OpenOffice.org community council > > for many years, with no results. I don't like to give money if I don't > > know where it's going. I hope The Document Foundation will do better. I > > don't expect auditing, but I do expect some basic accounting. > > > > Here is an example, from the group that handles the money raised for > > OOoAuthors from sales of printed copies of the OOo user guides: > > http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/newsite/?page_id=181 > > > > HI, > > Well I a bit lost here, doesn't http://www.ooodev.org/ have to do this, > as a matter of law? > > Drew > >
Is the difference that by law the financials must be submitted to the relevant [government] authority but not necessarily published on the web? It's the latter that is being requested, I think. -- Harold Fuchs London, England -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
