[tor-bugs] #10013 [Website]: Better Reflect Existing Sponsorship Information on the Website

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#10013: Better Reflect Existing Sponsorship Information on the Website
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     Reporter:           |      Owner:  phobos
  cypherpunks            |     Status:  accepted
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  enhancement            |    Version:
     Priority:  normal   |   Keywords:  transparency, sponsors, financial,
    Component:  Website  |  disclosure
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Comment (by phobos):

 Replying to [comment:4 arma]:

 > I agree that this would be really useful. It looks like #9614 is where
 we changed it from mentioning some 2013 funding to pretending like 2012
 was the end of time.

 From the financial perspective, it is the end of time.

 > Andrew, do we as a non-profit have any legal responsibility to disclose
 only audited things on a webpage like this (ugh), or can we just be (best-
 effort) accurate?

 We've been repeatedly told by our auditors and accountants to not disclose
 any financial data which is not audited to avoid messy IRS laws of
 premature disclosure. I'm investigating which laws and what the courts
 have done with such premature disclosure. We can assess our risks of
 publishing things when we have better info.

 > I think we should simply not list an end date when we aren't sure when
 the support will end. And then hopefully every so often we'll put end
 dates on the ones that did end the previous year.

 This would fall under "premature disclosure".

 > I also like the idea of putting dates into the future when we know them,
 e.g. the NSF grant with GATech and Princeton should be written as
 2012-2016.

 The Sponsorship page is people who've actually paid us, not promise to pay
 us. I hear the USG promises to pay us $2 billion in 2018.

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