[board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14
Hi Florian, A question about the funding requests. Could we have information as to what was requested? pt-BR project (Olivier) QA netbooks (Björn) Marketing (Charles) -- I think this one is for the FB ads? Cheers, Marc Le 2013-01-14 10:59, Florian Effenberger a écrit : Hello, between Christmas and New Year, I have been working on the budget for 2013. The good news is that since our fundraising campaign in October, we have received approximately 60.000 € (!) in donations, which is just amazing, and the average donation rate per month shifted from 2.500 € to about 10.000-15.000 €. Congratulations to everyone involved, you all can be very proud of that! A few comments to this very first draft of the budget, that we would like to refine together with you. - All counters are reset to zero, which is why at a first glance, the available money looks less than last year. In the December budget, only one monthly rate for our infrastructure was left, while for 2013, full 12 months are planned in. - The item of domain names was previously left uncounted, but I calculated our annual fees yesterday, and added that value. - This budget only plans in the TDF Berlin account money, not the donations SPI collected for the LibreOffice project. The most recent SPI treasurer's report I could find is linked in the header of the budget. - Travel fundings usually occur via SPI, not via the TDF Berlin account, which is why we did not plan them in as fixed item in this budget. - The safety reserve is based on my gut feeling. It might make sense to top that up to 20.000 € to be prepared for unexpected spendings, but for the moment, I'd like to leave it at 15.000 €. - This budget does not yet foresee any reserves for 2014, which we should collect already early on, since nobody knows how the donation flow will continue. - The budget can always only factor in the amount we definitely do have. For planning of long-term projects, it might make sense to have a prospective budget soon, to know what - given the donation flow stays as it currently is - we have available in e.g. June. However, keep in mind that budgets can never ever be on prospective amounts, but must fit to what we definitely have available for spending. - The values outside the yellow frame are planned in and/or booked already, and the budget requests we have received so far are in the yellow, framed box. The latter are the items we need to plan and discuss about. To give a better overview, I have uploaded the current budget draft to our wiki at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Tdfbudget2013.pdf Any feedback welcome, and thanks a lot to everyone for their contributions! Florian -- Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com http://www.parEntreprise.com parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org
Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14
Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2013-01-15 07:27: A question about the funding requests. Could we have information as to what was requested? pt-BR project (Olivier) QA netbooks (Björn) Marketing (Charles) -- I think this one is for the FB ads? I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so the board has no advantage over the public lists), we want to discuss this here in public, so Olivier, Björn and Charles should elaborate on the plans. ;-) Mea culpa, I wanted to ping them individually when the budget is public, so they can comment, but I didn't manage yet - sorry! Florian
Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 01:48:31PM +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: QA netbooks (Björn) I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so the board has no advantage over the public lists), we want to discuss this here in public, so Olivier, Björn and Charles should elaborate on the plans. ;-) The QA netbooks have already been discussed on QA Call. The idea is to have a budget for a set of netbooks that we can give publically as prizes to our most active QA contributors in QA marathons and triage contests. The idea is that this will: - motivate our current volunteers - growth our triager community - allow triagers who have been using one platform only to have a dedicated system for dual-boot Windows and Linux without any interruption of their daily work - same for versions As netbooks for testing and triaging are available now for 200-300EUR this IMHO something well worth it. There are still some tricky details to work out and discuss like: - how to get them to the volunteers without too much extra cost (shipping/handing them over at HackFests) - how to set the rules on 'winning' one of these without making it too complex or to easy to game the system Proposals on how to fix this for the next bug triage contest/QA marathon are most appreciated of course! Best, Bjoern
Re: [board-discuss] Re: 2013 budget draft - TDF Budget as of 2013-01-14
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Em 15-01-2013 10:48, Florian Effenberger escreveu: Hi, Marc Paré wrote on 2013-01-15 07:27: A question about the funding requests. Could we have information as to what was requested? pt-BR project (Olivier) QA netbooks (Björn) Marketing (Charles) -- I think this one is for the FB ads? I'm Cc'ing those three. We have been working internally on the budget first, to have some starting point, and those three requests came in. These requests have not been decided on yet (on purpose, so the board has no advantage over the public lists), we want to discuss this here in public, so Olivier, Björn and Charles should elaborate on the plans. ;-) Mea culpa, I wanted to ping them individually when the budget is public, so they can comment, but I didn't manage yet - sorry! Florian https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Brazil-Budget2013.pdf We submitted the budget plan to avoid last-minute/emergency decision to get from the BoD. Our plan involves participation on 3 major events (FISL, CAMPUS-PARTY and LATINOWARE) as well as organizing 3 hack-fests in 3 different cities of Brazil (TBD). Different from Europe, distances in Brazil must to be crossed by air and we have to move one or two people to mentor the fests. Kind regards - -- Olivier Hallot Founder, Board of Directors Member - The Document Foundation The Document Foundation, Zimmerstr. 69, 10117 Berlin, Germany Fundação responsável civilmente, de acordo com o direito civil Detalhes Legais: http://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint LibreOffice translation leader for Brazilian Portuguese +55-21-8822-8812 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQ9Vx7AAoJEJp3R7nH3vLxEmwH/iAos3lbTl5Rrj/smkZnZ0cJ 9C3JL0jT39GsJSZQNq3TNCgi0BRHnbec6+uIT8JN5og+qK/i0bULwKBuMXw4hKrY 4NnWx26DuVEerL8Er8h8zNkcKYsut8i2iW86LBe2XLC0/+vTAXr+1rj4uBsc6T91 CHQVH20A3azF/4hAnleI1DpNMjehQuE++Ig8KD8ZJB8xhl+bOlRxkwAWXi5krhWE K2xCzPj90BrXEA/pPfuitaLhQ9F2q8rxVtTVLpE+J36FC05I6b7BWRfO4z1CoaDP x4K2Sin5fgXT6QK/nJZKr81F8KupghsWLeezPe1tEU9q9W9KxG9WLu9yeQ+URb4= =hM+H -END PGP SIGNATURE-
