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

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

Luke,

You did not consult with anyone else before sending this email. You demand openness and transparency yet you do not seem to follow your own advice.
This is disappointing. Please retract your email now.

Konstantinos 

 ---- On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:16:59 +0300  Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton via Libre-soc-dev  wrote --- 
 > 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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