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On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 19:02 +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Sunday 08 May 2005 17:36, Brad Cowan wrote: |
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> > Hi, |
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> > I'd like to be considered in the voting for a trustee position. A |
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> > particular interest would be in the form of funding and the possibility |
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> > of grants based on recommendations of a "steering committee" if that |
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> > model gets approved. |
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> What do you mean by grants? Maybe I should add that the foundation by no means |
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> is rich, and financially most if not allmost all money not spend on legal |
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> fees should be saved for future legal fees and a reserve. |
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> Paul |
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Yes, I understand the current budget situation, these are longer term |
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goals. I'm interested in ways to increase our funding to go above and |
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beyond self sufficient. Spending all our funds on general expenses and |
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saving all the excess for legal expenses and a reserve for possibly more |
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legal defense leaves no room for things like research and development or |
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overall improvements. I know these last two things depend on the having |
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more funding coming in than going out, which is what we should be |
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striving for in my honest opinion. Just because we're a non-profit |
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doesn't mean all our funds need to be for legal issues or our focus as |
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trustees needs to be towards legalities does it? |
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As for the grants, I'm not talking about huge sums of money here. For |
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example the trustees decide that they would like to start a $500 overall |
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improvement grant (could even be $10...the amount is trivial), they |
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would then ask the steering committee to decide which area needed the |
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most improvement and would write up a set of criteria or goals they |
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would like to see accomplished with this grant. The trustees would then |
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enact this grant based on the recommendations of the steering committee. |
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The steering committee would then judge which party should receive the |
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grant based on all criteria being met and the best model that represents |
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their goals. This separates the trustees from making the actual |
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developmental decisions or goals that the steering committee should be |
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making, but still allowing for contributions towards the overall well |
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being of the distro. |
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Anyway I'm just scribbling random thoughts, thanks for listening. |
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Brad Cowan <bcowan@g.o> |
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Developer, |
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