[NCSG-FC] CIVICRM

[Thato Mfikwe]

Thanks, received.

Thato Mfikwe.

On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 1:57 PM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
>
> Sent offline
>
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 6:27 AM Thato Mfikwe <thatomfikwe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Farzaneh,
>>
>> What password should I use to gain access to this platform?
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 5:24 AM, farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear FC,
>>>
>>> Here is a current status of NCSG CiviCRM finances:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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)
>>>
>>> This budget is an annual budget that ICANN provides for us. We will see
>>> if it gets approved next year too.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>>
>>> Farzaneh
>>>
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