Hunter Peress wrote:
wikimedia funds should be public.
eg an account balance with details like the actual balance, and what has been purchased...
I have been following a practice of maintaining all non-USD donations separately, continuing to hold them in the original currency, with the idea that _perhaps_ we will try to spend those dollars in such a way as to primarily benefit donors in that part of the world.
SunTrust Bank Account Balance: $1,862.23 PayPal Balances: USD 94.98 CAD 257.80 EUR 648.54 GBP 168.84
(Converted to USD this would be: $1,290.85)
The only money that has been spent so far: $50 - wikipedia.de domain name renewal (but, we don't have this yet) $9,126.42 - the big new db server
And there have been some small bank fees, as well.
If there is a move for me to do so, I can post these numbers on a more regular basis, rather than whenever someone happens to ask me. It is possible with PayPal to write programs to interact with their system to get balances, but I have not done so yet because I don't think we are going to stick with Paypal as our only money service providers, and it seems that when we have several, automation would be a lot of work for little benefit.
--Jimbo