wikimedia funds should be public.
eg an account balance with details like the actual balance, and what has been purchased...
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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
Hunter Peress wrote:
wikimedia funds should be public.
Like this: This money is now under GPL. If you give it to someone, you have to tell everybody who you gave it to, and they in turn must respect that this money is under GPL. Etc. This money must never again enter the closed economy. :-)
We will soon die from starvation, since there are too few "open economy" food stores. Some of us must move into the countryside and start cooperative "whole earth" farms that produce GPL food.
Lars Aronsson wrote:
Hunter Peress wrote:
wikimedia funds should be public.
Like this: This money is now under GPL. If you give it to someone, you have to tell everybody who you gave it to, and they in turn must respect that this money is under GPL. Etc. This money must never again enter the closed economy. :-)
Does this mean that since you can copy GPL money as much as you want, there would be no such thing as counterfeiting? :-)
Ec
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Hi Lars,
Hunter Peress wrote:
wikimedia funds should be public.
Like this: This money is now under GPL. If you give it to someone, you have to tell everybody who you gave it to, and they in turn must respect that this money is under GPL. Etc. This money must never again enter the closed economy. :-)
We will soon die from starvation, since there are too few "open economy" food stores. Some of us must move into the countryside and start cooperative "whole earth" farms that produce GPL food.
Hey, a good idea ;-)
No, really -- I know people with ideas quite similiar to these, who really want to create an "OpenEconomy". __ . / / / / ... Till Westermayer - till we *) . . . mailto:till@tillwe.de . www.westermayer.de/till/ . icq 320393072 . Habsburgerstr. 82 . 79104 Freiburg . 0761 55697152 . 0160 96619179 . . . . .
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