Please i encourage people that haven't voted yet should please do. As SFC promise to wire transfer on Monday if this motion pass on or before Sunday.
Samson On Aug 12, 2017 1:00 AM, "James Cameron" <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > I'm not a board member, or a member, but my opinion is that Sugar Labs > should approve the $US 627.05 travel advance for Samson Goddy. > > Having said that, I'm going off topic in reply to Laura below; > > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 09:08:06AM -0500, Laura Vargas wrote: > > I agree with you it should be clearly defined who in Sugar Labs is > > responsible for Google's collections. > > Disagree. The oversight board is responsible. Jointly and severally; > which means each board member is responsible, and the board as a whole > is responsible. As an organisation with no staff, the board is all > there is. > > > Resources in Sugar Labs are limited and historically we had lost a > > lot of opportunities because uncollected grant, please research on > > Trip Advisor's case when lack of clear responsibility for collection > > let to an unbelievable lack of collection of US$40.000 for > > internationalization's projects. > > > > Responsibility isn't clear at this point. > > Disagree. The oversight board is responsible. > > > About the Financial Manager role, it was created by the Board on > > July's decisions last year, still they never appointed anyone for > > the role. > > Agreed. > > Regardless of whether a Finance Manager is appointed, the board > remains responsible. The board can't shift that responsibility by > appointing a Finance Manager. > > However, a Finance Manager can greatly help the board, so my > recommendation is that the board appoint one as they had intended. > > > In the meanwhile, Adam has continue serving as the representative > > for Sugar Labs with the Software Freedom Conservancy since last > > period. Still, this role doesn't account for any financial > > responsibility according to current [3] Governance. > > > > I'm sorry we still don't have a wiki page that would easily resolve > > any financial question to the community. It is a tendency I'm hoping > > to revert by proposing the Motion 2017-08-10: Sugar Labs Financial > > Manager to have a monthly compensation. > > I'll reply to this on the other thread. > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
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