[Board] OSGeo Banking Support

[Seth G]

Hi all,

Thanks for moving this along. We had a discussion on Friday about 
alternatives, and it looks like the EventBrite system allows collection 
of payments from attendees and then payments out to different accounts. 
We will probably use this to pay for the expenses, and see if the 
sponsors can pay for room/refreshments directly (as suggested on these 
boards). The US dollar account may mean a loss with conversions to and 
from Euro, so probably no need for any short term actions.

An OSGeo Euro account could be useful in the longer term to store any 
excess funds and to invest in future events.

Regards,

Seth

On 27/03/2017 01:41, Michael Smith wrote:
> Done.
>
> Michael Smith
> Remote Sensing/GIS Center
> US Army Corps of Engineers
>
> On Mar 26, 2017, at 7:18 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Great, so you have a moment to set that up in loomio?
>> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 1:17 AM Michael Smith 
>> <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>     I think we need a board vote (just to see if anyone has
>>     objections). And we don't have a euro account. We can use the US
>>     account. The primary way we do small amounts is PayPal.
>>
>>     Michael Smith
>>     Remote Sensing/GIS Center
>>     US Army Corps of Engineers
>>
>>     On Mar 26, 2017, at 7:10 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>     Michael what do we need to make this happen, confirmation that
>>>     the Irish local chapter is official? An email to treasure? ...
>>>
>>>     On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 4:12 PM Jody Garnett
>>>     <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>         Excellent, and yes offering a shared bank account is one of
>>>         the reasons we have OSGeo.
>>>
>>>         Michael was looking into setting up a Euro account but I
>>>         would have to check meeting mins to see what became of it.
>>>         On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 7:47 AM Seth G
>>>         <sethg at geographika.co.uk <mailto:sethg at geographika.co.uk>>
>>>         wrote:
>>>
>>>             Hi all,
>>>
>>>             The Irish OSGeo Chapter is in the planning stages of a
>>>             one-day event in May -
>>>             https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Ireland/Symposium2017
>>>
>>>             We believe we have the funds and sponsorship to pay for
>>>             the hosting of the event, but would like to know if
>>>             there is any possibility that OSGeo could provide a bank
>>>             account?
>>>
>>>             We will likely use https://www.eventbrite.ie/ to allow
>>>             attendees to register and make a small payment (unless
>>>             there are any open-source suggestions for this?). We
>>>             will need an account to pay into, and then make probably
>>>             2 payments from the funds (a hotel and a expenses
>>>             reimbursement). Funds would be paid in/out in Euros. If
>>>             an OSGeo account could be used this would mean we don't
>>>             have to try and open an account which may be difficult
>>>             without an official organisation. It also means any
>>>             excess funds remain within OSGeo.
>>>
>>>             The alternatives are to use a personal/related company
>>>             account, or to see if an arrangement could be made with
>>>             the venue, neither of which are ideal solutions.
>>>
>>>             Regards,
>>>
>>>             Seth
>>>
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>>
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