Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-22 Thread Sriram Ramkrishna
Hiya Jim! On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Jim Nelson wrote: > Hello everyone, > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would > you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel > these two methods are the only or best way to achieve thi

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-22 Thread Jeff Fortin
Le lundi 19 mai 2014 à 11:19 -0700, Jim Nelson a écrit : > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) > would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or > do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this > goal?) I tend to thi

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread David King
Hi Jim On 2014-05-19 11:19, Jim Nelson wrote: Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this goal?) I think that corporate donat

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread Emily Gonyer
In my previous email responding to Kat, I touched on this very subject. First and foremost we need to determine two things: 1) How much money we are currently spending on what, and what is truly needed. 2) How much money is currently coming in, and from where - this should be broken down into categ

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread oliverp
On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 10:48 +0200, oliverp wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 22:02 -0400, Marina Zhurakhinskaya wrote: > I think we can do more with organization sponsorship and individual > donations than we are doing right now. We have a product that is naturally of > interest to a lot of consume

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-20 Thread oliverp
On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 23:08 +0200, oliverp wrote: > On Mon, 2014-05-19 at 11:19 -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > > My questions for the candidates is: > > > > > > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) > > would you investigate to increase and

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Marina Zhurakhinskaya
- Original Message - > From: "Jim Nelson" > To: "Foundation List" > Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 2:19:37 PM > Subject: Questions for the candidates: finances > > Hello everyone, > > First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary&

Re: Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Tobias Mueller
Hi. On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 11:19:37AM -0700, Jim Nelson wrote: > Aside from corporate sponsorship and personal donations, what area(s) > would you investigate to increase and stabilize GNOME's finances? (Or > do you feel these two methods are the only or best way to achieve this > goal?) Redu

Questions for the candidates: finances

2014-05-19 Thread Jim Nelson
Hello everyone, First, I'd like to voice my support for Dave Neary's question. I also believe finding an executive director may be the most important task for the incoming board. From some earlier discussion it sounds like the other defining task will be stabilizing GNOME's finances. Other