On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 05:50:00PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...2...> wrote:
The general fund has an income of around $6-7k per year, or an income rate of about $500/month. I had been concerned previously that the hackfest would steal all our donors and starve the general fund, but you can see even though people are definitely favoring to donate to the hackfest, we're still getting general fund donations (just for first half of March we're already at $2778 - $2275 = $503).
Okay, this puts my concerns to rest then. May as well donate it in a single shot. Yay on the numbers btw!!! Do we have more info, such as who the donors were? I'd like to give them shout outs as we go and maybe get some corporate logos up on our website.
We certainly do. A typical entry in ledger has this data:
2015-03-10 ComputerBase GmbH ;Program: Inkscape:Conferences:Hackfest:2015 Assets:PayPal $144.90 ;PayPalTransactionId: 0UM8989276211204D Income:Inkscape:Donations $-150.00 ;IncomeType: Donations ;Memo: Thank you for developing Inkscape! Expenses:Inkscape:Banking Fees $5.10 ;Entity: PayPal
There are no email addresses or other contact information.
I think we shouldn't publish names, out of privacy concern. The Memo field is probably fair game; biz names probably, too. No clue whether displaying the donation amount is good or bad or what.
Here's a list of business donors:
2015-01-17 Association LILA ;Memo: This is a donation for Inkscape by the non-profit association LILA resulting from the "Libre Calendar 2015" event: http://librecal2015.libreart.info/en/ 2015-02-01 Powerhouse Electronics 2015-01-31 govirtual.com.au 2015-02-12 kiswa.com 2015-02-13 JGS Technical LLC 2015-02-12 elementary ;Memo: Your friends at elementary use Inkscape a ton for our design workflow. Hopefully this donation help s you all get together to make Inkscape even better. 2015-02-12 WP Consulting 2015-02-12 Confidence, LC 2015-02-15 HICK Tech 2015-02-16 Sinestesia Studio 2015-02-19 Birdie 30 Disc Golf & Pro Shop 2015-03-03 Tipoqueno 2015-03-03 Tamara T Pty Ltd 2015-03-02 EcologĂa Facil & Yorokobi 2015-03-06 Nedia Marketing 2015-03-10 ComputerBase GmbH ;Memo: Thank you for developing Inkscape! 2015-03-12 Branco Engineering Bureau Associazione Professionale 2015-03-14 Bama-Labs
A few of those I'm not sure if it's a business or just a person's pseudonym.
Lemme know if you want the dollar amounts (most were in the $20 range); I can send that offlist.
True; it seems odd to specify a donation in the FSA itself. Certainly, I could see it included in the FSA text if it's considered a required membership fee we must pay. If it truly is up to us to optionally choose whether or not to donate and/or how much, then you could argue maybe it would be better handled as an independent matter?
This is why it doesn't feel right to me. If it's a requirement, I would appreciate them being up front about that. If it's not, it's doesn't seem appropriate to me and comes across that they either don't trust us or it's an unspoken requirement.
*Nod*
Bryce