On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:30 AM Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> wrote: > On 13/01/21 23:37, Markus Neteler wrote: ... > > I created a ODS table in the nextcloud of OSGeo for both 2020 and 2021: > > https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/dKXfqq4QkMmSkB5 ... > > https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GIS_Budget_2021 > > > > and OSGeo request put here: > > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2021#OSGeo_Projects > > > > Please speak up if anyone disagrees. > > There's a bit of a mix-up between accounts (past income) and budget > (planned income).
OK, thanks for the clarification (below). > - The total amount of money we carry over from 2020 (aka "Surplus 2020") > is 1902,18€, which is the sum of the 1413,27€ currently in the bank > account and the 488,91€ currently in the PayPal money pool. > > - In 2020 we only got 290€ in donations into that money pool. (OT: seems we need to advertise it better) > - So in the budget 2021 we need to decide what our target for donations > is. As a reminder, in 2019 we managed to collect over 1000€ in donations > but that was linked to specific drive for the web site. As OSGeo paid > for the website, we still have most of that money left (minus some that > was spent for sprints). I would think that if we are more proactive for > donations we should be able to at double last year's amount and so we > could put in a target of at least 500€ in the 2021 budget. > > - This is a budget, and so it also contains some elements of hope. I > think we should foresee money for in-person sprints, which might become > possible again in the second semester of 2021. If we can't do them, > we'll save that money, but we should at least budget the option. In > 2019, the main sprint cost about 1000€ with roughly half for travelling > and half for other costs, a second smaller sprint was about 500€. So I > added that. If we are able to organise these sprints, we still would end > up with a surplus at the end of the year, even if we do not collect any > donations, so I think we can take the "risk" of budgeting them. > > This also allows to show that we do not only rely on OSGeo for the > funding, but use our own money as well. Yes, fully agreed. > I've gone ahead to change both the file in Nextcloud and the wiki (do we > really need both ? can't we just link from the wiki to a read-only > version of the Nextcloud file ?), but please feel free to revert if you > disagree. Thanks for the update. And yes, just linking from the wiki to a read-only version of the Nextcloud table is preferred (filling in Wiki tables isn't that much of fun). Markus _______________________________________________ grass-psc mailing list grass-psc@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-psc