X.Org Foundation Board of Directors 2010 Election

[Luc Verhaegen]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 03:17:16PM -0800, Stuart Kreitman wrote:
> On 02/10/10 11:47 AM, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > (tl;dr: Yes, I agree that the Foundation needs to be doing a lot more,
> >          but nothing we've done is hidden from our members, i.e. board
> >          members know basically as much as you, and that this is a result
> >          of lack of time/etc, rather than any desire to keep any
> >          information private.  Yes, we should be doing better.)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Disclaimer: All of this is off the top of my head.  I could be and am
> > probably wrong on some of the details.  This does not represent an
> > official statement on behalf of the Foundation, etc, etc.
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 06:31:32PM +0100, Luc Verhaegen wrote:
> >    
> >> The X.org Foundation exists to best represent the interests of the X.org
> >> Foundation members, by being the legal entity responsible for the state
> >> of the Foundation. To a large extent, its responsibility is to manage
> >> the considerable amount of funds that the X.org foundation has gathered
> >> over the years, in the best interest of these X.org foundation members.
> >>      
> > Rather.  For the record, I think the current balance is on the order of
> > ~$us150k.  Around the time we dissolved the sponsors' group, we decided
> >    
> As co-signer of the checks,  that sounds really high, My guess is that its
> knocked down to 1/2 that by now, but I haven't seen the exact balance for
> a few years now.  This needs to be sorted before comittments for the next
> conference are made.    Keith?
> 

So, Stuart, you are not on the board, but you have to cosign the 
checks... How come there seems to be no certainty about the amount still 
available?

Luc Verhaegen.