donation to flavours in 2012

[Charles Profitt]

Paul:

Thanks for reminding me about that list. I took a little bit of time and summarized the obvious Flavor related items in this document.

$2919.79 - Kubuntu
$600 - Gnome

I do agree that moving forward that we need to have a more transparent process. Past practice can't be undone, but we can try to improve on things that are not working optimally.

I want to emphasize that the CC did get an agreement with the Canonical that there are to be no changes to the sliders without consultation first.

- Charles

---- On Thu, 21 May 2015 06:02:22 -0700 Paul Sladen<ubuntu at paul.sladen.org> wrote ---- 

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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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