[kde-usa] [kde-promo] KDE U.S. NPO

[Lydia Pintscher]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 19:20, Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org> wrote:
> On 3/8/2012 6:22 AM, Claudia Rauch wrote:
>> On 7 March 2012 14:01, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org> wrote:
>> That's correct. Lydia and me had a chat with Brad at FOSDEM and he
>> said they don't have the capacities at the moment and also, there's
>> still an open question of whether we would want to pay the  increased
>> fees the SFC is currently charging for the service.
>
> Both of the statements they made to you are quite stupid:
>
> 1) I first approached the SFC 6 years ago about a KDE non-profit;
> they've been telling us all for > 2 years that we're a done deal, once
> the funding bits got ironed out. So saying that they suddenly have no
> capacity is a cop-out.

Well Bradley said Karen for example is no longer available to them.
And he himself needs to spend more time on fundraising.

> 2) The last time I had a talk with Brad and you guys (at BDS) they
> didn't know what the fees were going to be. Did they ever actually
> decide and tell us? We certainly can't answer a question if they don't
> give us the info we need to answer it...

Let's talk about this in a less public place.


Cheers
Lydia

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