[Koha] Koha Fundraising Committee Draft Terms of Reference

[Brendan Gallagher]

Hi all -

Just to be clear again - this is what I had highlighted previously -->  "
4. Jonathan Druart has resigned from Biblibre effective May 1st and is
currently unemployed.  I propose the we use some of the money of the Fund
to hire him as a contractor to a) sign-off on bugs b) QA bugs c) clean up
bugzilla (for example we have a large number of bugs that are major or
critical for some that have no patches even written for them, plus there is
also a bunch of other clean up that will help every other developer in the
community - that honestly none of us really have time to do).  Since he has
no allegiance to a support provider - he is exactly the third party person
we are looking for. "

Also I'd like to suggest that we have a 2 weeks to review the document
presented and a vote in 2 weeks time.  I will choose a time that we can all
vote in IRC.  Thanks.


On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Brendan Gallagher <info at bywatersolutions.com
> wrote:

> Good points.  Can these be raised at the meeting?  (Sorry for the delay -
> unforeseen timing - and no rush passing this but discussion asap is what we
> want).
>
> Can we also bring up my other points about Funding Jonathan to work for
> Koha based on any monies raised by the fund?  If we could pass that as a
> community in this meeting then Jonathan would be able to immediately start
> helping on those key areas- that I have highlighted and mentioned before.
> Seeding the fund is already committed to by a few organizations (Bywater
> biblibre Ptfs-Europe).
>
> Thanks Brendan
>
> On Tuesday, June 9, 2015, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
>
>> Bob Birchall wrote:
>> > Brendan is travelling but has asked me to post the draft TOR for the
>> > fundraising committee.  You will find them here:
>> > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Fundraising
>> >
>> > These will be considered at the General IRC Meeting scheduled for 10
>> > June at 20 UTC:
>> > http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/General_IRC_meeting_10_June_2015
>>
>> I'm disappointed that we get only 1 day to review these, but that is an
>> improvement on the zero days last time... still, I've proposed
>> postponement to allow others time to review.
>>
>> I've some questions about the conflict of interest policy.  If someone
>> has neither financial or personal interest in the development of Koha,
>> why do we want them on this Committee?
>>
>> What happens if there are no disinterested members for a matter?
>>
>> Do we want a register of interests that members could be given standing
>> exemptions for?  So members could declare their businesses, any other
>> elected posts and any relevant funders or assets at the time of their
>> election and be told that's OK unless any of those are more interested
>> in a decision than those of other members.
>>
>> === Article 3: Conflicts of Interest ===
>>
>> Whenever a member has a financial or personal interest in any matter
>> coming before the Committee, the affected person shall a) fully disclose
>> the nature of the interest and b) withdraw from discussion, lobbying,
>> and voting on the matter unless a majority of disinterested members vote
>> that it is in the best interest of the Fund to allow it. The minutes of
>> meetings at which such votes are taken shall record such disclosures,
>> abstentions or rationale for approvals.
>>
>> === ENDQUOTE ===
>>
>> Regards,
>> --
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