[Linux-aus] Donations (was The Ada Initiative)

[James Turnbull]

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Donna Benjamin wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 22:53 -0600, James Turnbull wrote:
>> Since at least 2008 (and perhaps
>> earlier) LA or the LCA team in conjunction with LA has made a donation
>> to the charity of choice for LCA of that year.  In 2008 for example LA
>> made a donation of 10K to the Little Penguin Foundation to supplement
>> the money raised during the conference. 
> 
> Actually - no James, that's not right either. LCA2008 decided not to
> hold a charity auction for a couple of reasons.

Actually I didn't mention an auction at all for that very reason. :)

> Instead, we ran a kind of raffle. Rusty's raffle. He devised some kind
> of complex algorithm to maximise dollars received for the raffle.
> 
> LA didn't get round to honouring that payment to the Little Penguin
> Foundation for quite some time. We could not make that payment directly,
> because LA never gave the LCA08 team access to bank accounts.
> 
> So in 2008 - LA did not make a charity donation. At all.
> 

I had thought that all got resolved. I am embarrassed to hear it didn't. :(

James

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