Board voting ends today, but...

[Eberhard Moenkeberg]

Hi,

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Egbert Eich wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:45:07PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:

>> 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
>
> This is actually interesting and it supports my feeling how finances
> are handled and why I have given up doing any accounting.
>
> But maybe I'm wrong and I only have this feeling because things work
> differently in the EU than in the US where an organization is able to
> to pocket ones money by making false claims.
>
> It's not as if X.Org didn't have a legal counsel - I would have expected
> that with the help of this the issue with PayPal could have been resolved
> and the money been refunded.
>
>>
>> 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 don't think anyone is putting any blame on you as the organizer
> of the event.
> After all there was a justifiable reason for all the expenses and
> there is no point arguing now if things could have been done at lower
> costs.
> It is more the intransparency of things which create an uncomfortable
> feeling among some of the people here.

Seconded.

Hopefully Matthias Hopf will follow your aspects in case he gets elected.


Viele Gruesse
Eberhard Moenkeberg (emoenke at gwdg.de, em at kki.org)

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