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[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Stephanie Gerson wrote:
> -By the way Lawrence, you mentioned that hosting on Ibiblio would free up 
> grant money to pay wages for the people involved in the project.  Not 
> necessarily the case.  No foundations (at least none that I checked out) 
> allow for more than 10-20% of the sum requested to be allocated towards 
> wages/overhead.  We’d have to be using the majority of the money for 
> other costs (equipment, materials, etc.)  So going with Ibiblio doesn’t 
> necessarily mean we’d have more money for wages (unless we were dishonest 
> about our expenses) – it means we’d have more money for something else, 
> other than wages.  

Just wondering if there has been any further news from Threshold 
Foundation. Do we know when the money is coming in, are there
any pre-contitions before we get the loot. etc...

As to the 10-20% overheads, I've little idea as to how we are going
to spend the other 80% we don't really need that much else.
(Well a sooped up computer so I can play Doom3 would be nice,
and also marginally improve my efficiency).

The one thing I do really think we could do with is money for a meeting.

Some admin costs, some books, maybe some consulting fees
(getting someone who knows about guilds would be cool).

In the UK we have a difference between capital projects
(where the money goes on buying a bunch of tools/buildings etc)
and revenue projects (money for wages). Different funders
specialise in different aspects.

Personal feeling is that Jim will realise that we are mainly in the 
revenue domain.

Anyway this is just guess work until we hear from Jim. So not something 
to stress about now.

        Rich

BTW has their been any recient communication from Jim (I might easily 
have missed something).

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