Board voting ends today, but...

[Peter Winston]

The thing that suprises me is that there has been no discussion of  
"how do we update the vision and goals of x.org"

The fact that we might be spending too much for hosting, or doing a  
poor job of accounting for expences is interesting, but secondary to  
"where do we want to be in 3 years, and how are we going to get there."

IMHO

Peter

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On Feb 18, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Daniel Stone <daniel at 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 <libv at 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).
>
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> 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.
>
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> EMAIL.       *
> * DO NOT TAKE IT AS GOSPEL, DO NOT RELY UPON IT AS ABSOLUTE  
> TRUTH.    *
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> 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.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel
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