<p dir="ltr">Hey Mike,</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'll make sure to get it done as soon as I get home.</p>
<p dir="ltr">--<br>
José Antonio Rey</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On May 29, 2014 11:08 AM, "Michael Hall" <<a href="mailto:mhall119@gmail.com">mhall119@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Please post the following to the Fridge, original post is at<br>
<a href="http://mhall119.com/2014/05/community-donations-funding-report/" target="_blank">http://mhall119.com/2014/05/community-donations-funding-report/</a>:<br>
<br>
Last year the main <a title="Download 32 bit Ubuntu 14.04"<br>
href="<a href="http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=14.04&amp;architecture=i386" target="_blank">http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute/?version=14.04&amp;architecture=i386</a>"<br>

target="_blank">Ubuntu download page</a> was changed to include a form<br>
for users to make a donation to one or more parts of Ubuntu, including<br>
to the community itself. Those donations made for "Community projects"<br>
were <a title="Funding request form"<br>
href="<a href="http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/" target="_blank">http://community.ubuntu.com/help-information/funding/</a>"<br>
target="_blank">made available</a> to members of our community who would<br>
use them to benefit the Ubuntu project.<br>
<br>
Every dollar given out is an investment in Ubuntu and the community that<br>
built it. This includes sponsoring community events, sending community<br>
representatives to those events with booth supplies and giveaway items,<br>
purchasing hardware to make improve development and testing, and more.<br>
<br>
But these expenses don't cover the time, energy, and talent that went<br>
along with them, without which the money itself would have been wasted.<br>
Those contributions, made by the recipients of these funds, can't be<br>
adequately documented in a financial report, so thank you to everybody<br>
who received funding for their significant and sustained contributions<br>
to Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
As part of our commitment to openness and transparency we said that we<br>
would publish a report highlighting both the amount of donations made to<br>
this category, and how and where that money was being used. Linked below<br>
is the first of those reports.<br>
<br>
<a title="Community Donations Funding Report"<br>
href="<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/11xUZDhHzfcu38NABw4jgGD9vuCawRh9EcbgsPVQRwgA/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/11xUZDhHzfcu38NABw4jgGD9vuCawRh9EcbgsPVQRwgA/edit?usp=sharing</a>"<br>

target="_blank">View the Report</a><br>
<br>
--<br>
Michael Hall<br>
<a href="mailto:mhall119@gmail.com">mhall119@gmail.com</a><br>
<br>
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