Hi Sage-Devel,
There is a Sage Foundation account at UW with some money, often from
private people, and also from book sales (e.g., the Sage Tutorial from
Lulu.com, which is pretty popular). People can also make
tex-deductible donations to this account.
When managing funds (e.g., with other grants I have with co-PI's
etc.), I personally feel much more comfortable if there is another
person who I can discuss any ideas for spending such money. For
example, right now we're having regular trouble with the trac server
not being robust enough (IMHO). Spending a little money on somebody
to fix this situation would make sense.
It would be useful to have somebody with an interest in fund raising.
There are numerous people who directly or indirectly benefit
financially from Sage and would like to somehow give back financially,
but perhaps don't know what the best way to do this is, and moreover
don't know how their money will be used. E.g., somebody yesterday
wrote to me that he has started a web-based company that uses Sage,
and wanted to donate some small amount of money as a result.
I would thus like to open a general discussion about creating an
official position of "Treasurer" for the Sage project. The point of
this thread is to brainstorm about what such a person might do, to
nominate people, etc. Some ideas for possible duties:
* post a list of how Sage foundation money gets spent on a web page
* keep track of the budget
* provide feedback about ideas for spending money wisely
* make it clear to people how they can donate money to the
project, and precisely how incredibly valuable such donations can be
to us.
Thoughts? I'm just hoping for a very open ended discussion.... If
people have anecdotal experience being (or knowing) a treasurer for
some organization, they could share that as well.
I could imagine that several people could be nominated and one person elected.
--
William Stein
Associate Professor of Mathematics
University of Washington
http://wstein.org
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