[OSGeo Finance] Reviving the Finance Committee

Mon Sep 26 18:54:51 EDT 2011

I've just sent an invite request to Daniel, with full access and to the info at osgeo.org
account for read access.  Frank, can you pick a password and circulate?  You should
see the invite soon.

Once done, I'll swap "master admin" over to Daniel, but even right now he has
almost complete full access rights.

Tyler

On 2011-09-26, at 3:46 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Daniel,
> 
> I believe the board tasked you to reconstitute the finance
> committee, so I think you can just declare it and update
> the wiki.  I would suggest the next step is to ensure everyone
> on the committee has at least read-only access to quickbooks
> online for reviewing purposes.
> 
> Tyler, do you still know the 3rd "read only" account for quickbooks?
> If not, I can likely dig it up from my email archive.  Also, I should
> be transferring my update-access account to Daniel for his use
> as Treasurer. Presumably whoever is eventually doing the books
> would take over Tyler's update-access account.
> 
> For those not familiar, I believe we can have three accounts
> on quickbooks online before we get bumped up to the next
> cost bracket.  We have taken the practice of having two
> update access ones  and one catch-all read-only account
> that is shared amoung other members of the finance committee.
> We (the rest of us) should just be using the account to review
> and audit the finances.
> 
> Best regards,
> Frank
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Daniel Morissette
> <dmorissette at mapgears.com> wrote:
>> Thank you for your response Ken.
>> 
>> The only one we have not heard from yet is Jo, but someone told me off-list
>> that she is no longer involved in OSGeo stuff so we should not expect her to
>> stay.
>> 
>> This means that for now the new finance committee members will be:
>> 
>>  * Daniel Morissette (chair)
>>  * Frank Warmerdam
>>  * Dave McIlhagga
>>  * Tyler Mitchell
>>  * Lisa Sweeney
>> 
>> How should we go about making this official? Should I write a motion to this
>> list to dissolve and recreate the committee with the new members, or
>> individual motions to remove/add individual members? Or am I worrying too
>> much about process here?
>> 
>> Daniel
>> 
>> 
>> On 11-09-26 12:54 PM, Ken Tamura wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello all,
>>> Sorry for the late reply.  I'm back in the office now and have had time to
>>> catch up.   This is great that the group is getting back together.
>>>  Unfortunately I'm now spending my 'extra' hours on another non-for profit
>>> organization as a board member.  I wish the group all the best and future
>>> success.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> Ken
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Ken Tamura
>>> AEC Division of Autodesk, Inc.
>>> 415-547-2114 (w)    415-299-1704 (c)
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: finance-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>>> [mailto:finance-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
>>> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 3:22 PM
>>> To: Daniel Morissette
>>> Cc: finance at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo Finance] Reviving the Finance Committee
>>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> I'm happy to work with the committee during transition out of my position,
>>> but I can't commit beyond that due to not having any idea what I'll be doing
>>> with my time and trying to get my income restarted will be a huge time
>>> challenge I'm sure.
>>> 
>>> Glad you're getting the committee restarted.
>>> 
>>> Hope that helps,
>>> Tyler
>>> 
>>> On 2011-09-23, at 1:01 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Thanks to all who answered, so far we have Frank, Dave, Lisa Sweeney and
>>>> myself for the new committee. Paul is moving on...
>>>> 
>>>> Still waiting on responses from Jo, Ken and Tyler...
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 11-09-21 01:26 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Finance Committee,
>>>>> 
>>>>> This group has been quiet. As you probably know by now, I was
>>>>> appointed as the new OSGeo treasurer at OSGeo's F2F board meeting on
>>>>> Sunday. My first task is to bring this committee back to life and to
>>>>> work on a budget for 2012 with you.
>>>>> 
>>>>> First step: since this committee has been inactive for a while, I
>>>>> would like to ask all members to confirm their interest in continuing
>>>>> active work on the committee.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Finance_Committee page lists the
>>>>> following members:
>>>>> 
>>>>> * Frank Warmerdam
>>>>> * Dave McIlhagga
>>>>> * Jo Walsh
>>>>> * Paul Ramsey
>>>>> * Ken Tamura
>>>>> * Tyler Mitchell
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please all members confirm you interest in continuing, or indicate
>>>>> your intention to step down. I hope you'll all be staying but want to
>>>>> make sure before we get going.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Also if there is anyone lurking on the list who is interested in
>>>>> helping then please let us know. Someone with experience running a
>>>>> US-based non-profit would be much welcome on the committee to advise
>>>>> on US-specific requirements.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> 
>>>>> Daniel
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Daniel Morissette
>>>> http://www.mapgears.com/
>>>> Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
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