[LGM] finances

[Louis Desjardins]

2017-11-27 11:24 GMT-05:00 Frank Trampe <frank.trampe at gmail.com>:

> This is great news. It seems to me much better to pursue open doors and to
> deal with an organization with which we have contacts, so, if there are no
> objections, I'd like to postpone our SPI effort for now. Thoughts?
>

I don’t know what’s involved in the SPI effort but I understood you wrote
them a letter (or did I miss something?) and we are waiting for an answer.
I can only think their answer will be positive.

My take on that is we enter the process of becoming a project member, it
can take up to 3 months, ahead of time before next LGM. Meanwhile we work
on the sponsoring, knowing that the money can land in GNOME’s account. Once
the process is complete with SPI, we transfer the money to them from GNOME.
Even if it takes 2 months extra, we’re still on time with LGM for the
reimbursements that SPI will take care of.

Louis

>
>
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Louis Desjardins <
> louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2017-11-24 11:51 GMT-05:00 Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> Who at GNOME Foundation can provide details of their interest in this
>>>> and their overhead charges (if any)?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just wrote to GNOME to explore that path. I am currently waiting for
>>> an answer. As soon as I get it, I will get back here.
>>>
>>>
>>> Super! Thank you Louis!!
>>>
>>
>> Good morning guys!
>>
>> I just got a confirmation email from Neil McGovern at GNOME who answers
>> me (quote!) “I'm sure we'd be able to help.”
>>
>> Dave, I am confident you can now start the discussions with Google; the
>> money could safely land at the GNOME Foundation before getting to SPI.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Louis
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list
>> Libre-graphics-meeting at lists.freedesktop.org
>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting
>>
>>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Libre-graphics-meeting mailing list
> Libre-graphics-meeting at lists.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libre-graphics-meeting
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libre-graphics-meeting/attachments/20171127/ef1871a5/attachment-0001.html>