[Board] Sprint surplus over at CUGOS...

[Michael Gerlek]

Dearest Board:

What¹s the consensus on this? Should the money go to Stefan or to Daniel?

-mpg, ready to write a big check




From:  Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
Date:  Thursday, October 31, 2013 at 10:58 AM
To:  Aaron Racicot <aaronr at z-pulley.com>, Daniel Morissette
<dmorissette at mapgears.com>
Cc:  OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject:  Re: [Board] Sprint surplus over at CUGOS...

> +1
> Thanks.
> 
> Aaron Racicot <aaronr at z-pulley.com> ha scritto:
>> Personally I think this is a bad model.  If these are OSGeo sprints, OSGeo
>> should carry the cash from year to year and use it to help subsidize the
>> sprints.
>> 
>> For many informal orgs (who end up hosting these events) it is hard to carry
>> this cash for long periods of time on their books (if they are even formal
>> enough to have books).  We at CUGOS have held this money for 2+ years.
>> 
>> If OSGeo is serious about these types of events it seems like making an
>> ongoing account within the organization to carry this money would be wise.
>> 
>> Just my $0.02
>> 
>> A
>> 
>> 
>> On Oct 31, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Agreed. I'd say we pass it on to Stephan for the 2014 sprint.
>>> 
>>> Daniel
>>> 
>>> On 13-10-31 1:07 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:
>>>> Turn it over to the 2014 folks, IMO
>>>> 
>>>> P
>>>> 
>>>> --
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>>>> On October 31, 2013 at 10:05:52 AM, Michael Gerlek (mpg at flaxen.com
>>>> <mailto://mpg@flaxen.com>) wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> There was a surplus of $2,052.92 from the 2011 Sprint event and a
>>>>> surplus of $2,392.06 from the 2012 Sprint event and a deficit of
>>>>> $992.54 from the 2013 Sprint event, for a total of $3452.44 being held
>>>>> in trust today by CUGOS for future sprint events
>>>>> 
>>>>> We (CUGOS) would like to get this money off our books and turn it over
>>>>> to either the 2014 sprint organizers or to OSGeo itself.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Suggestions, thoughts, comments?
>>>>> 
>>>>> -mpg
>>>>> 
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