Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

On 13 October 2010 14:54, Drew Jensen <drew@baseanswers.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:31 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote:
> >
> > > Maybe it's a little early but...
> > > I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the
> > > website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for example,
> wikimedia:
> > > http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report
> > >
> > > I think transparency is a good way to show TDF is working well... and,
> > > in my opinion, it also invites people to donate more money.
> > > Namaste :)
> >
> > +1
> >
> > I have been asking for this from the OpenOffice.org community council
> > for many years, with no results. I don't like to give money if I don't
> > know where it's going. I hope The Document Foundation will do better. I
> > don't expect auditing, but I do expect some basic accounting.
> >
> > Here is an example, from the group that handles the money raised for
> > OOoAuthors from sales of printed copies of the OOo user guides:
> > http://www.friendsofopendocument.com/newsite/?page_id=181
>
> HI,
>
> Well I a bit lost here, doesn't http://www.ooodev.org/ have to do this,
> as a matter of law?
>
> Drew


Is the difference that by law the financials must be submitted to the
relevant [government] authority but not necessarily published on the web?
It's the latter that is being requested, I think.

-- 
Harold Fuchs
London, England

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