On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 22:34 +0100, Andreas Mantke wrote: > Hi Hal, *, > > Am Samstag, 26. März 2011, 00:33:44 schrieb Hal Parker: > > (...) > > > > This sounds like a good opportunity, if anyone can get there. Do we have > > any active documenters/ help producers in North America? And would TDF be > > willing to pay the US$100 registration fee and travel costs for one or > > more attendees? > > > > I don't think that the TDF will pay currently for this. The TDF is no legal > entity at > the moment. It had to be set up (legally) and then the board of the TDF can > create a > finance plan that hopefully covers some travel expenses in its marketing > section. > > At the moment you should search for a sponsor, if you want to attend an event > and > don't want to pay everything by your own.
This sounds like a very good reason for any money raised by sales of LibreOffice user guides to stay in the Friends of OpenDocument account until TDF is set up legally. Friends of OpenDocument Inc *is* a legal entity and can make money available to cover relevant expenses. At the moment, LO has approx. US$40 in revenue from sales of "Getting Started with LibreOffice". Obviously this won't even cover the registration fee for the conference. IMO a case could be made to use some of the money from sales of OOo user guides for LO purposes related to documentation, but this would need to be looked at case by case. Another possibility is for the OOoAuthors fund (which has over US$8,000 in it) to loan money to the LO-books fund, to be repaid from future sales of LO books. As long as we remain within the "objects* of the association", there should be no problem. We do keep sub-accounts for various groups as well as for the organisation's own expenses. BTW, the OOoAuthors accounts are posted here: http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/newsite/?page_id=194 I usually update the accounts every six months, but I haven't done the July-Dec 2010 set yet. Money from "GS with LO" sales doesn't appear until January 2011. --Jean * To support the work of community volunteers in promoting, improving and providing user assistance for the OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) and open source software designed to operate on data in this format. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
