<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks, received.</div><div><br></div><div>Thato Mfikwe.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:57 PM, farzaneh badii <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">Hi </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Sent offline </div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:27 AM Thato Mfikwe <<a href="mailto:thatomfikwe@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatomfikwe@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Farzaneh,</div><div><br></div><div>What password should I use to gain access to this platform?<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:24 AM, farzaneh badii <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:farzaneh.badii@gmail.com" target="_blank">farzaneh.badii@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Dear FC,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Here is a current status of NCSG CiviCRM finances:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">CiviCRM is the database management we have used for our membership management. It had many glitches and needed a lot of development, so we decided to spend the budget of 9000 USD (some of this went for hosting, I will put the invoices and everything else up) that ICANN allocated to NCSG to fix the system. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I also asked both NCUC and NPOC who received 9000 USD each from ICANN for database management to allocate 4000 USD of their budget to us to continue with the development etc. They approved, so in total we have around 17000 USD for development work and CIVI maintenance. We have hired a company. (which I am going to send you the proposals - contract and invoices we received up until now)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This budget is an annual budget that ICANN provides for us. We will see if it gets approved next year too.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In the past (when Tapani was chair) the CIVI developer was being paid by NCUC bank account and then NCUC would get reimbursed by ICANN.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">NCUC EC agreed to do so this time as well, however, the treasurer of NCUC only accepted to pay the two initial invoices and urged NCSG to have its own bank account or ICANN to pay for it directly.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">This changes many things. I believe it also means that we need to have a bank account for NCSG and cannot use the constituencies' bank account. <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">In order for ICANN to pay for this, it has to establish the company as a vendor, a very complicated process that will take a lot of time and ICANN won't probably accept it because the service is going to support our group and not ICANN org.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">A more immediate concern is this means that we cannot continue paying the company through NCUC and our work on membership management will be stopped. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">I have discussed this with ICANN, and they have informed me that I can pick up the bill and upon showing the paid invoice, get reimbursed. I have to talk to my bank as well and see what would be the best way to go about it. I am willing to do this for a period of time until NCSG gets its own bank account. We will see what the bank says.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">So for now letting you know about the status of this. If I end up paying for the service, I will put up the invoices/the ICANN payments somewhere password protected you can have access to. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Best </div><span class="m_4526064230723534147m_-3726744561683547390HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="m_4526064230723534147m_-3726744561683547390m_2231540136221672852gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Farzaneh </font></div></div></div></div></font></span></div>
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