[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikimediafr-l] Thoughts about a future board budget meeting (or budget board meeting ?)
Angela
beesley at gmail.com
Wed May 11 11:46:09 UTC 2005
On 5/11/05, Anthere <anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I think the board should do a budget/financial meeting soon. The last one
> was done a trimester ago, so it is high time.
Considering how difficult it has been to get the board together for a
meeting in the last month, I strongly suggest we have this as part of
the meeting planned for Monday 16th May rather than trying to find a
suitable point in Jimbo's schedule for two meetings.
> Question for Danny and for those taking care of grants and prizes...
> I think we have no grants planned right now (except for wikimania). Am I
> correct that we should not expect any income in the near future from that
> direction ?
Also, are there any grants out there that people think we _should_ be
applying for which we might not be aware of yet?
> Also, depending on what is left, we must think of the time when the next
> fundraising will be reasonable to do. I suspect it is a bad idea to do it in
> summer... so, in short, do we need to plan something in june, or will we be
> able to last till september ?
I'd prefer June since that is still within the 2nd quarter which is
when the next fundraising drive was expected.
> ...so, either the french
> association quickly has cash to pay for such expenses, or the foundation
> should have a credit card in europe to take care of such matters... opinion ?
Is there any reason we don't have a credit card on the Belgian account?
Angela.
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