On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 13:45, Daniel Stone <dan...@fooishbar.org> wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 01:33:36PM -0800, Stephane Marchesin wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 05:44, Luc Verhaegen <l...@skynet.be> wrote: >> > There is little to no information about the X.org Foundation Boards >> > financial handlings. Several years ago, several companies (at least one, >> > Sun) deposited a lot of money into the foundation. It seems that the >> > foundation had 222k usd at the start of 2007; and we have 125k usd >> > today. We are not getting many details on how these funds were used, and >> > we only get some very general statements about how these funds were used >> > in the last year. And it seems that nobody on the actual board of >> > directors has anything but some hazy ideas of what is going on. >> >> FWIW a fair chunk of that money went into XDS 2007. If you recall we >> had a nice conference place and X.Org paid for hosting and trip for a >> big number of people (which is also why the event grew so big and was >> so successful, we never had such a big venue before and since then). > > *********************************************************************** > * THIS IS ONLY MY RECOLLECTION FROM A TWO-MINUTE SCAN OF EMAIL. * > * DO NOT TAKE IT AS GOSPEL, DO NOT RELY UPON IT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. * > *********************************************************************** > > As far as I can tell (and I've not looked hard, because I'd like to > escape the office early), XDS 2007 cost $US10k for the venue, around > $US24k for travel sponsorship (no joke), and something like $US5k lost > to PayPal (they decided we were scammers and took our money) as well as > around $US5k that vanished into the Brazilian banking system, which > gives us $US45k for one conference. > > *********************************************************************** > * THIS IS ONLY MY RECOLLECTION FROM A TWO-MINUTE SCAN OF EMAIL. * > * DO NOT TAKE IT AS GOSPEL, DO NOT RELY UPON IT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH. * > * * > * SERIOUSLY. * > *********************************************************************** > > If you feel this is unacceptable and are looking to assign blame, the > mail archives back me up that the entire thing was entirely my idea, and > every single costing and proposal came from myself. >
I didn't mean to imply that, quite the opposite actually. I for one am certainly grateful that X.Org funded my trip and lodging at XDS 2007. Considering that: - there is so much money in the bank (about 3 times what you need for XDS 2007, *hint* *hint*), - giving wide sponsorship makes these conferences better by gathering more people - the current economy does not help with funding conference trips neither for the professional devs nor for the spare-time devs, my opinion, and the point I was trying to make, is that we should have more like that one... Stephane _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list xorg@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg