[Libre-soc-dev] freeze on all RFPs until a review of Financial Accountability has been carried out

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170#c4

i am bcc'ing both NLnet and Bob Goudriaan on this message.

some unauthorized changes were made to the Financial Accounting
records yesterday night, in direct violation of my clear
instructions only a couple of hours before they were made, that
under no circumstances were unauthorized changes to be made.

this means that any RFP placed can no longer be 100% signed
off (by me) as the Project Financial Administrator, as there
could be a financial accounting irregularity requesting more
money than has been Authorized by the European Union.

the two Grants affected are:

* 2021-02-052  https://libre-soc.org/nlnet_2021_crypto_router/
* 2021-08-071  https://libre-soc.org/nlnet_2021_3mdeb_cavatools/

i am therefore enacting a freeze on RFPs for both the Cavatools
and Cryptoprimitives Grants until a full audit of the bugtracker
records, comparing against all tasks listed in the NLnet RFP
system, have been carried out and double-checked.

as you at NLnet know, you trust us with the amounts of grants
that you do precisely because i have ensured that the Financial
Records are kept meticulously to the strictest standards.

i have requested that the individual responsible for the
unauthorized changes makes the corrections, followed by
double-checking EVERY budget in the RFP system against our
bugzilla records, at which point i will then double-check them.

once and only once i am happy that the records are accurate will
i let everyone know that the RFP Freeze can be lifted.

note that this is an internal matter (to Libre-SOC): it does
not affect people's ability to carry out the work, i simply
refuse to authorize RFPs *for* that work, until the results
of the full audit are known.

team: given that we have team members such as myself, Dmitry,
and Jacob critically financially dependent on NLnet Grants,
this audit takes absolute top priority above all else.

l.


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