<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="">Why would a financial report for a FOSS4G be shared privately? Shouldn’t the financial results be available for inspection by anyone who is interested? Or at least a summary if there are lines in the report that might disclose personal info.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The 2013 financial report is currently accessible online at <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YdFNuBNaJK2XeA-bs1vU24VA1Qv9HpN8rLs30D9_0zg/edit?usp=sharing" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YdFNuBNaJK2XeA-bs1vU24VA1Qv9HpN8rLs30D9_0zg/edit?usp=sharing</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 11 Dec 2014, at 08:11, Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com" class="">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Hi Cameron,<br class=""><br class="">Comments inline below:<br class=""><br class="">On 2014-12-10 2:33 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi Jeff,<br class="">I've read through, and document looks pretty good. Thanks.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">great, thanks for taking the time to review it.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">1. Following on from Till's comment about FOSSGIS being listed in the<br class="">past FOSS4G conferences.<br class="">As you will have noticed, OSGeo/FOSS4G has now grown to the point where<br class="">there are now multiple FOSS4G regional and local events happening every<br class="">year.<br class="">You can get an indication for the number from our OSGeo-Live history<br class="">page, which lists where OSGeo-Live is used:<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History" class="">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_History</a><br class=""><br class="">If FOSSGIS is listed, then some of the other large FOSS4G events should<br class="">also be listed (FOSS4G-NA immediately comes to mind considering that<br class="">attracts comparable, if not more people than FOSSGIS and FOSS4G).<br class="">We could try and list all regional and possibly local events, but I<br class="">suspect that it will become too difficult to keep up to date. As such,<br class="">it would likely be easier to only list the FOSS4G main annual events.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Regarding this RFP, I agree with you that regional events could and should be documented here. It will take me some time/effort, but I will start to contact regional event teams for reports, to be included in future requests for hosting. I feel this is very important.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">2. Lessons Learned from 2012 is not listed. (This was our failed year).<br class="">While painful to remember, I think we learned a lot from the experience<br class="">we gained that year, which was captured in the lessons learned.<br class=""><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned" class="">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2012_Lessons_Learned</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Excellent point. I've added the 2012 Lessons Learned wiki page, and committed the document to SVN.<br class=""><br class="">Also:<br class=""><br class="">- added the 2014 report from Darrell (and mentioned that he has shared with me a short financial report as well, and that I can be contacted to share privately). I will forward that privately to the OSGeo Board now<br class=""><br class="">- fixed copy/paste error in Stage1 of doc, reported by Till<br class=""><br class="">Committed in SVN.<br class=""><br class="">-jeff<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Conference_dev mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org" class="">Conference_dev@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>