Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Hey

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Thomas Krumbein
<thomas.krumbein@documentfoundation.org> wrote:
> Hey Drew,
>
> Am 01.11.2010 12:16, schrieb Drew Jensen:
> > On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 11:22 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-11-01 11.21:
> > > > Where can I find the financial disclosure for the legal entity known as
> > > > OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V ?
> > >
> > > why would you need that?
> >
> > Well, for a month now you have in reality been collecting donations in
> > and spending money in, my name.
>
> Well, I have made in regular intervals a report about foundings and cost
> - last one was send Oct, 16, 2010 to the ooofuture list.
>
> I add the content below.
>
> Next report will follow soon (I will make monthly reports in future -
> starting november :-) )
>
> So - dont worry, everything is transparent.
>
> Best regards
> Thomas Krumbein
>
> ######
>
> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Betreff: [ooofuture] missing business concept / first overview figures
> Datum: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 12:11:15 +0200
> Von: Thomas Krumbein <T.Krumbein@OOoDev.org>
> Antwort an: ooofuture@lists.ooodev.org
> An: ooofuture@lists.ooodev.org
>
> Hey all,
>
> as you know, the OOoDeV temporaly take over the cost and founds for the
> upcoming TDF.
>
> So I will give you now a first overview about those figures:
>
> Since Sep, 28 we recieved a lot of small to very small amounts of money
> mainly via PayPal - so PayPal charge some fees of each recieved amount.
> The sums are:
> recieved from Sep, 28 to Sep., 30 :    939,76 EUR
> recieves form Oct, 01 to Oct, 15  :    709,36 EUR
> additional recieved via bank account:  201,00 EUR
> Founds summery:                      1.850,03 EUR
>
>
> Costs since starting up the Foundation:
> Mainly hardware (Server) cost and domain-registration, up to now:
>                            467,07 EUR
> Fees for trademark "LibreOffice" and "The Document Foundation":
>                                     1.800,00 EUR
> Costs for the layer (not payed jet) appr.
>                                     2.000,- EUR.
> Sum costs:                           4.267,07 EUR
>
> That means, up to now we do have a deficit of appr. 2.400,- EUR.
>
> OK, what I missed: we got lot of small ammount donations (10 US$, 5 EUR,
> 20 CAD, ...), but there is no ammount higher then 100 EUR. All donations
> we recieved from privat persons - I did not see a company transfer.
>
> We do have a lot of "support statements" on our webside - but those
> words did not follow any actions...
>
> Looking forward to set up the foundation it is not done with "nice
> words", we need money. We need a typical business-plan, which figure
> out, how many money is needed and where we will get it. I haven´t see
> anything like this?
>
> Looking forward to the foundation: the foundation will need money - as a
> found stock (should be as high as possible) and for "daily work" - so
> ervery oranisation has costs during the year - means government fees,
> tax, account fees, founding fees, server costs and so on.
> This costs could not be covered with those small donations as recieved
> daily.
>
> So, any idears? Is someone working on this?
>
> best regards
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
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OOo had many Non-Profits around the world some of them with a budget,
I wonder if you have knock on their door and have them as
contributors? I would think of French, Italian and Japanese groups
could have a space on their budget to participate with the cost and
get some benefit from it.

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Alexandro Colorado
OpenOffice.org Español
http://es.openoffice.org

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