[OpenID board] Social Graph FooCamp help ...

Dick Hardt dick at sxip.com
Wed Jan 9 20:25:59 UTC 2008


Unfortunately I don't think we can just flow money through the  
Foundation if the Foundation is not actively involved. It would raise  
concerns from the tax people and members of the Foundation would  
wonder what we are doing.

The event does look like something where OpenID should have a  
presence, so perhaps the Foundation can participate in the event and  
promote OpenID. Then as part of the participation, it could handle  
the funds. Taking a management fee for handling the funds would be a  
good idea as well. :-)

Scott: do you want to propose to the board something about the  
Foundation participating and we have an email vote on it?

-- Dick


On 8-Jan-08, at 7:34 AM, Scott Kveton wrote:

>> Would you elaborate more on the event, the sponsorship and what is
>> happening?
>
> We've invited about 75 people who are doing interesting works around
> social networking, the social graph, and technologies for data
> portability.  It will be organized like other FooCamp's and hosted by
> O'Reilly.  More information can be found here:
>
> http://sgfoocamp08.pbwiki.com/FrontPage
>
>> What would the money be for?
>
> The money would be used to cover costs for the event; food, drinks,
> snacks, t-shirts, etc.  In addition, we'd use some of the money to
> provide travel for people who need assistance in getting to the event.
>
> - Scott
>
>
>
>> On 7-Jan-08, at 5:30 PM, Scott Kveton wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Everybody,
>>>
>>> David and I are leading efforts to organize a Social Graph FooGraph
>>> that O'Reilly is hosting in Sebastopol, CA.
>>>
>>> We have been lucky enough to round up some fantastic sponsorship but
>>> now we're faced with trying to figure out _where_ to put the  
>>> money so
>>> it can be used for the event.  I wanted to ask the board formally if
>>> we could use the OpenID Foundation account and non-profit status for
>>> this?
>>>
>>> I think this fits well with the OpenID Foundation mission and David
>>> and I will be there to represent the OIDF.  We can both handle  
>>> any of
>>> the details around managing the money, etc.  If there is any money
>>> left over it would be considered a donation to the OIDF.
>>>
>>> We're shooting for this event to happen the weekend of 2/1 so a  
>>> prompt
>>> response or other suggestions would be greatly appreciated in a  
>>> timely
>>> manner.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> - Scott
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