donation to flavours in 2012

[Paul Sladen]

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On Mon, 18 May 2015, Jono Bacon wrote:
> constructive approach

Indeed; I've been uncomfortable with Michael defending a situation
where there is a lack of data.[1]  Michael has done excellent work in
preparing statements for the 'item_7' slider splits begining 5 April
2013[2]---after Jono left,[3] the community team took over collective
responsibility[4].  The recurring discussion has been regarding
donations in the previous finanical year:

  9 October 2012[5]--4 April 2013[2].

The Paypal setup supplies an itemised order based on the sliders
(including zero sliders) to the 'donations at ubuntu.com' account.[6]
These allow summing the individual totals.  I've tried to prod a
couple of people, so hopefully the relevant breakdowns of the income
can be retrieved and made available shortly to give some better idea
of scale.  Following that, I hope that the presentation of (some) hard
data can focus any discussion to a constructive finality.

	-Paul


PS. Don't expect a windfall though, for perspective: on my own
guessimate, the six-month amounts likely wouldn't run the flavour
build infrastructure and community team for more than perhaps a mere
fortnight!

[1] Michael Hall, 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-community-team/2015-May/000510.html
"The funds were donated to supporting flavors, that is what the funds were used for."
[2] Michael Hall, "2013-2014 funding report Q1-Q4",
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11xUZDhHzfcu38NABw4jgGD9vuCawRh9EcbgsPVQRwgA
[3] Jono Bacon, "Goodbye Canonical, Hello XPrize"
http://www.jonobacon.org/2014/05/19/goodbye-canonical-hello-xprize/
[4] David Planella, "The Ubuntu Community Donations Program in review"
http://davidplanella.org/the-ubuntu-community-donations-program-in-review/
[5] Steve George, "Contributions come in many forms"
http://blog.canonical.com/2012/10/09/contributions-come-in-many-forms/
[6] "Tell us what we should do more" (View source)
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/

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