[Foundation-l] Re: [Wikimediafr-l] Thoughts about a future board budget meeting (or budget board meeting ?)

[Anthere]

Angela a écrit:
> 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.

Quite true, but I am not sure we will have gathered all the relevant 
information by monday... but we can try...

Mav, are you free on monday ?

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>>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.

I am not sure we should say "expected". We only need to do fundraising 
if we have need of money...


>>...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?

I do not think there is a valid reason. I suggest we get one.


> Angela.