Hello,
Thanks for sharing the budget with the community.
A few questions / remarks :
- in most countries, we can see a general inflation, having consequences on
every kind of costs ( hosting, salaries…). Did you take this context into
account when preparing the budget, especially when basing planned 2023 costs on
actual 2022 costs ?
- the cut on Grant budget is really hard. With a "reasonable" mean budget of 5K
per grant, this would mean 2 grants only this year. It sounds more or less like the end
of the grant program. Who would candidate if chances to be selected are really low ?
Wouldn't there be a way to mitigate it a bit, through various smaller budget reductions
to other budget lines ? The increase in documentation contribution is huge compared to
the grant decrease. I fear that we loose grants as a mean to attract new core developers.
My most important remark is about "allow for a regular small salary .. for one person on each
item". Disclaimer : I am quite strongly against QGIS.org having employees. If we are in the
process of having "regular workers" for qgis.org, then we really have to work hard on :
- having a clear, written and transparent process for how to select these people
- .. process including a fair way for anyone to candidate
I may have missed some communications, but I have not seen this in place up to
now. This is definitely something we have to put in place before having some
internal troubles.
Best regards,
Vincent
On 24/11/2022 12:07, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
Hi all, we prepared the QGIS budget for 2023 and would like to have
feedback before submitting it to the voting members for approval. You
can directly leave comments in the file [1].
Please let us have any Feedback until December 4th. On december 7th
we'll send the budget for vote.
Cheers Marco
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WyoZCKOehNhU5YB4pFPOuiJbie1mUmMPiq8YW7qyez0/edit?usp=sharing
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WyoZCKOehNhU5YB4pFPOuiJbie1mUmMPiq8YW7qyez0/edit?usp=sharing>
-- Marco Bernasocchi
QGIS.org Chair OPENGIS.ch CEO http://berna.io <http://berna.io>
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