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Re: Q to all candidates: spending money



On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 09:13:10AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> On 20/03/15 at 20:02 +0000, Neil McGovern wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 08:56:23PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> > > also sprach Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org> [2015-03-20 19:27 +0100]:
> > > > I'd be more sympathetic to funding someone (perhaps via an
> > > > internship, or gap year student who's going on to accountancy) to
> > > > help set up a system so we can track it easier, but only if we
> > > > woudn't be wasting their time with them simply pinging TOs for
> > > > data, and not getting replies.
> > > 
> > > Let's assume they'd be wasting time pinging TOs for data and not
> > > getting replies. What would you do in that case?
> > > 
> > 
> > If a TO can't give us useful data about income and expenditure in a
> > timely manner, that's not acceptible. We should drop the TO unless
> > improvements happen.
> 
> As it has been mentioned before, SPI has been struggling with that for a
> long time now (since before my terms).
> 

They seem to be mostly caught up at the moment, or perhaps there's some
other information you're seeking that has not been forthcoming?

> Does the above mean that, if elected, you will drop SPI from our TO?
> Which other TO would you then use to keep our funds in dollars? What
> about non-monetary assets?

I think you've unintentionally set up a straw man here. However,
answering in general, there's a number of organisations around the US
who are able to offer similar services should an evaluation be
required[0].

Neil

[0] http://flossfoundations.org/foundation-directory
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