What does the Treasurer's office do for the ASF, and how has it changed - Myrle Krantz
Channel: The ASF
Date: 2021-10-12

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Replicated A presentation from ApacheCon@Home 2021
https://apachecon.com/acah2021

A non-profit business is also a business.  The Apache Software Foundation pays our awesome infra people, and we pay for hosting, for conference venues, for marketing, for lawyers, and for many other things.  We do all of this to support our open source projects and let them focus on community and code.  To help us fulfill our mission of open source for the public good, our awesome sponsors and donors give us money.  Those money flows need to be organized and tracked.

Believe it or not, after 20 years of operation, even The ASF has had a need for digitalization of its financial operations.

In this talk, I'll explain how the Treasurer's office works, how it interacts with other parts of The ASF, and how we have updated processes, tools, and relationships over the last year and a half.
It mostly works however, and the ASF is a living testimony to that: more than twenty years of successful collaboration among people from different cultures, age groups, professional backgrounds and other reasons for disagreeing. It's not always smooth, however, and finding flaws in our communications styles and mechanisms is easy if you look a bit closer.

In this talk, instead of looking for flaws, we will focus on what works in terms of online communications in such semi-chaotic environments.

Conciseness and clarity are key, but they can be hard to achieve. We will present concrete examples of how to communicate efficiently, based on well-known tools and techniques like precise quoting, radiating intent, reformulating, following Blaise Pascal's advice, assuming good intentions and other simple principles that can make the difference.

This talk will help you improve your online communications, based on more than twenty years of experience with multiple ASF projects and groups at all levels. Our tools and techniques won't solve all our problems but they might help you solve some of them.