Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf money (or debts?) at SPI (Re: Extra money we forgot we had

[Richard Darst <rkd@zgib.net>]

Bringing FFIS treasurer in so that we can clarify how the
accounts/earmarks work...

On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 06:02:28PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Freitag, 18. Februar 2011, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > AFAIK, this is what is already happening on the other side of the ocean
> > (i.e. at SPI): money are all together, with specific DebConf earmark. I
> > presume DebConf people could know the earmark by asking the SPI
> > treasurer.  
> 
> So whats the DebConf earmark at SPI? Is there only one, for DebConf10 or are 
> there more?

I think it would be good to clarify just how this money is kept
separate at SPI and FFIS, since I think they are different systems.  I
also think there is confusion about them, but *I'm not sure* since I
have never been able to see each system.


>From what I gathered, at SPI, there is no "DebConf earmark" or
"DebConf account", it's just manually kept separate.  If this is so,
keeping DebConf earmarked like this is a lot of manual work, and a
separate "account" would be useful for saving Michael's time (and
helping me audit the ledger for DC11).

And, from what I gathered, at FFIS, each transaction is labeled with
an "earmark" (thus, "earmarks" instead of "accounts").  Thus, you
can't have a "debconf earmark in the Debian account", the earmarks are
essentially separate accounts[0].


Are these interpretations correct?  I honestly don't know...

I think it is important to understand how SPI and FFIS work so that we
can make good decisions about things.

Thanks,

- Richard


[0] and the first proposed SQL in
    20110218224636.GH2002@finlandia.home.infodrom.org had been applied, it
    would have made the accounting I just did hard to the point I wouldn't
    have tried.  This is why I want to close things gracefully, rather
    than essentially vanish all of our data.

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