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

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.