From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail.geekisp.com ([216.168.135.169] helo=starfish.geekisp.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ot8F5-00054S-6d for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:10:24 +0200 Received: (qmail 25122 invoked by uid 1003); 8 Sep 2010 00:09:41 -0000 Received: from pool-96-240-180-126.ronkva.east.verizon.net (HELO ?192.168.1.167?) (philip@opensdr.com@96.240.180.126) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 8 Sep 2010 00:09:41 -0000 Message-ID: <4C86D444.2050105@balister.org> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:09:40 -0400 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org References: In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 216.168.135.169 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: philip@balister.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on discovery X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:20:07 +0000) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on linuxtogo.org) Subject: Re: OE donations X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 00:10:24 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/03/2010 05:26 PM, Cliff Brake wrote: > Hello, > > There is now a donation page on the OE website: > > http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Donate > > The funds will be used by the board > (http://wiki.openembedded.net/index.php/Organization) for various > purposes, so please discuss with one of them if you have questions. I > would assume there will be some type of report published as to how > money is spent, but again that is not my responsibility. The treasurer (Florian Bloor) is responsible for presenting the eV's finances to the membership. Typically, this occurs during a General Assembly. > Our immediate financial need is to upgrade storage on our server hardware: > > 4 new 1.5TB drives. Approx $1k In the past the eV has received money to help pay people's travel to events that benefit the project. It would be nice to have money on hand so we can be more responsive when the people working on the hosting need help. Philip > > Thanks, > Cliff >