[ZF] Finances and services

[Jim Fulton]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 4:58 AM, Jens Vagelpohl <jens at dataflake.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim,
>
>> The latest board minutes have "The treasurer filed his report via
>> email to the board list before the meeting."  As a non-board-member, I
>> find this to be pretty opaque.  I've scanned through a year and a half
>> of minutes and all I can find is a mention in last January's minutes
>> that Gary reported that we had $62,657.35.
>>
>> Can we get more detailed and regular reporting?
>>
>> As a member, I'd like to know on a regular basis:
>>
>> - how much money we have,
>>
>> - how much we're taking in, and
>>
>> - What we're spending money on.
>
> I'll leave the "regular basis" to the next board/treasurer, here's some information that I've gathered right now:

Fair enough.

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> We're spending money on the following:
>
> - hosting (2 physical servers at Hetzner, about $180/month)

$180/month each? or for the pair?

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Are there 2 for redundancy? That is, are hosted services replicated
across them? (Is that even possible with mailman?)

>> Also, I'd like to get a better idea of what services the foundation is
>> providing. Services I know of:

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> I hope that'll give you at least a rough idea what's happening right now.

Yup. Thanks.

Jim

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