On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Christoph Derndorfer <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Am 02.11.2011 18:50, schrieb Walter Bender: >> >> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:34 PM, Mel Chua<m...@melchua.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> As a member of the Sugar Labs community I find it quite frustrating that >>>> such basic information doesn't seem to be readily available (at least >>>> not on http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance where one would expect to >>>> find it). >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, it is encouraging that Rubén's and Aleksey's recent funding >>>> requests for Sugar Camp Lima were quickly acted and decided upon. >>>> However I would assume that such decisions involve a quick look at the >>>> current account balance which makes it all the less understandable why >>>> the corresponding wiki page doesn't contain that information. >>> >>> Actually, the reason I *didn't* vote on that funding request was because >>> I >>> (as a member of SLOBs) could not find that information either, and didn't >>> feel comfortable approving funding without knowing what our budget >>> picture >>> actually was. >>> >>> So Christoph, I do agree with you. >> >> Mel, I believe that as a SLOBs member you get the same reports from >> the SFC as the rest of us. >> >> # On 31 July 2011, Total assets restricted for Sugar >> $ /usr/bin/ledger -f /tmp/5mKPnnXTFW/sugar.ledger -e 2011/08/01 bal >> '^Assets' >> >> $ 21,141.78 Assets >> >> We don't have a more recent figure, but we also haven't incurred any >> major expenses in the interim. This approximate number was mentioned >> in a recent SLOBs meeting when the question of funds as raised. >> >> Christoph, would you like to volunteer to maintain a public version of >> our finances? We are shorthanded in this department and it seems to be >> an area of interest. > > Hi Walter, > > thanks a lot for the update and apologies for the slow reply. > > I just updated http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance#Current_finances with > the balance mentioned above and the information from Bernie's update > (http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/iaep/2011-November/014354.html). > > Looking through these messages I was wondering what is the status of those > Gould Grant efforts was? > > Searching through the wiki shows that the grant was awarded in June of 2009 > for the SoaS project in Boston > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Archive/Current_Events/2009-06-15). Then the > next, and last, mention of it is from January 2010 where you considered > asking them to see whether it can be used for infrastructure related > expenses > (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Oversight_Board/2010/Meeting_Log-2010-01-29).
The project has morphed into a new phase. Carolyn is working with a Haitian diaspora community. She could I am sure give you an update. Her principal focus has been working with Etoys. > > And you're certainly right, this is indeed an area of interest (though > admittedly only really since I've been forced to start dealing with finances > at OLPC Austria;-). If one of the SLOBs could simply keep me posted of > relevant information and updates by forwarding the relevant updates from SFC > I'd be happy to keep http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Finance up to date. > (However I of course don't want to step on Bernie's toes since he's taking > care of finances as well.) I may have unearthed someone with experience in finance who will take this one for us. -walter > > Cheers, > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > > e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep