Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketing LibreOffice

Hi Tom,
Are you supporting or objecting to having local groups request some of the money that Friends of 
OpenDocument is holding?

Jean

On 11/03/2012, at 8:55, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I thought the plan was to have "local teams", such as the Brazilian, or the French or wherever, 
> all administering their own finances and then giving maybe a flat rate as "Affiliation fees" or 
> some such and then maybe a percentage too.  
>
> My personal feeling is that Local teams need to work towards being self-sufficient and it would 
> be great if they can cover their own sundry costs without always having to discuss minutia and 
> waiting for TDF's BoD to approve a sundry expense.  I don't see any problem with Local Teams 
> being affiliated to both OOo and LO at the same time now.  I guess some funds may need to be 
> restricted to one or the other but that is something for the bookkeeping records and end-of-year 
> financial accounts.  
>
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Sat, 10/3/12, ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <ol@sophia-louise.de> wrote:
>
> From: ol klaus-jürgen weghorn <ol@sophia-louise.de>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Funds available for marketing LibreOffice
> To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Saturday, 10 March, 2012, 8:18
>
> Hi Jean, all,
>
> Am 10.03.2012 05:13, schrieb Jean Weber:
>
> > Instead of giving the LO money to The Document Foundation
> > for general expenses, we think it is better to make it available to
> > cover expenses that The Document Foundation can't or won't
> > deal with. Some examples might be the cost of marketing
> > materials (including copies of the user guides) for tables at events,
> > attendance at events aimed at potential and actual customers
> > (librarians, educators, etc), or just about anything that would be
> > valuable for spreading awareness and growing the community
> > and the customer base.
>
> 2 thoughts:
> - maybe interesting for the BoD-ml (board-discuss@documentfoundation.org) too.
> - maybe some part of the money for a travel refund (see point 12 of the BoD-tasks [1]? "We are 
> not yet in a position to pay these"
>
> [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Tasks
>
>
> ---
> Grüße
> k-j
>
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