On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 3:45 AM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 22, 2018 at 11:21 AM Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Afair the Sage foundation is a US non-profit with the necessary accounting >> busywork graciously provided by UW; So I'm sure there is similar reporting >> thats either published or available to the public. >
Let me try a rough attempt at answering some of the questions in this thread. Please ask followup questions or let me know if this is helpful. We could then add some version of this to the sagemath.org website. More precisely the "Sage Foundation" is really just the name of a donation account (a budget number) at University of Washington. That's it. UW itself is some sort of not-for-profit (though not a 501(c)3), so when people donate they can get a tax deduction. For the last few years, the main purpose of the Sage foundation has been: - accept donations from an anonymous retired person and a Microsoft Research to fund "Women in Sage" workshops, - accept a couple of small "random" donations, which for a couple of years have gone entirely to funding "The Sage booth" at math conferences (e.g., JMM and Mathfest), where a couple of us talk to hundreds of people who stream by. These donations are often on the order of a total of $50-$100/month, but it adds up, and sometimes there is occasionally more. One very nice aspect of this arrangement is that Univ of Washington does not charge anything at all for operating this account. So when somebody donates $50, we get to fully spend that $50. E.g., when there is a women in sage workshop, there's a ton of paperwork by UW involved in reimbursing everybody, and this is just done for free. Another possibly relevant data point (in case I were to leave UW) is probably the Chair of the UW math department right now is John Palmieri, who is also a Sage developer. -- William >> Though I've never read the Oberwolfach financial report ;-) > maybe I was wrong. As a member of their "Förderverein" I do get annual > reports (no idea whether they are confidential)... > >> >> >> On Friday, September 21, 2018 at 1:18:53 PM UTC+2, Dima Pasechnik wrote: >>> >>> Similar foundations, e.g. the one of Oberwolfach Institute, publish >>> their annual finance reports. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
