<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jody<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 22 Feb 2016, at 03:51, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="white-space:pre-wrap" class="">Tim can we pay the project back that 20%? If you need something done (or unhappy with how things are going down) your project officer can take up up with the board....<br class=""><br class="">I am not aware of the history at the time; but I want to ensure the foundation is setup to be a useful resource for projects. (We set this up once for projects, I do not want to set it up again for GeoTools, GeoServer, GDAL etc…)<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>That’s a very kind offer! It’s water under the bridge for us so though so although I appreciate the gesture, I don’t have any desire to go and fish out the old emails and find out what the amounts in question were. We have since put everything we need in place to self manage our project funds. QGIS has recently formed a legal entity and we will finally be opening our own project bank account after previously relying on the kind support of the Swiss QGIS User’s Group who managed our funds in their account. It will be great if you have mechanisms in place to help other projects coming along behind us in a way that the net effect of being an OSGeo Project is a positive one on the project’s bank balance and not a negative one (which If I read this thread correctly is now the case).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Thanks and kind regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><div><br class=""></div><div>8<——————————— snip ——————————— </div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></div><div class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><span>—</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at <a href="http://freenode.net" class="">freenode.net</a></div><div style="text-align: center;" class="">Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee</div><div style="text-align: center;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></body></html>