[foundation-board] OKFN-DE funding proposal take two

Mon Jul 9 12:35:28 UTC 2012

On 9 July 2012 13:32, Martin Keegan <martin at no.ucant.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Rufus Pollock wrote:
>
>> That's great to hear. Any news from Paula and Jordan -- the two board
>> members yet to respond :-)
>
> Fundamentally, we have bigger things to worry about.
>
> My understanding from Friedrich was that he (and/or the OKFN-DE board)
> would just walk away from OKFN-DE if we insisted on better project plans
> before giving them any money.  I find it unlikely in the extreme that you
> and Laura would be insisting on OKFN-DE adopting a standard of governance
> unreasonably more restrictive than justifiable given the sums involved.

What are we talking about here? OKFN DE are doing great stuff and
could do a lot more if we would support them in this. I have no issues
re disbursement here and I don't understand what is now being
discussed.

> If they were indeed to reduce their involvement in OKFN-DE, that would be
> a problem, but a survivable one.

No it wouldn't! It would be a *disaster* ...

Rufus

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