On 1/24/2011 at 04:02 AM, in message
, Per Jessen wrote: Vincent Untz wrote: Le lundi 24 janvier 2011, à 10:25 +0100, jdd a écrit :
Le 24/01/2011 10:02, Per Jessen a écrit :
jdd wrote:
We may also very quickly be obliged to hire some lawyers, secretary, even some room (managing money in may be millions dollars need cautions, how do Mozilla do?)
According to wikipedia, the Mozilla Foundation has 150 employees.
sure, but how is it managed? (not that I hope so much cash very soon :-))
We can look at Foundations that manage thousands instead of millions as a start...
That might be more realistic :-)
Of course, the management principles remain the same, it's just the amount of workload that differs.
The GNOME Foundation and the KDE eV both handle that very well, with a board and a part-time/full-time administrator. (The GNOME Foundation also has a part-time sysadmin and a full-time executive director.)
A foundation is just a special kind of legal entity - the practical aspects of how it is managed is the same as any other business.
You are right in that we do need to figure out how to manage the funds. The legal entity does have to account for them to the members. We will need to develop a very 'light weight' process to manage it. That's why I put a placeholder topic on the wiki. Think simple - aka spreadsheet. The interesting part is that the project hasn't really tracked funds (as a project) in the past, so we have a learning curve ahead of us. Where we have spent money in the past should help define how to categorize the funds in the future. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-foundation+help@opensuse.org