So 1/3 of our money pre-budgeted for the year isn't enough? I know you said you're not advocating spending it all in one year, but, I'm sorry, I disagree with you here. Until we have proven that we can readily raise money, I don't think we should go blow most of it with no recoup strategy. When it comes to the LGM/Hackfest budget, I'm already trying to get outside funding for that. This is what we're supposed to be doing, fundraising or getting sponsorship for LGM and the Hackfest... if we need to fall back on reserves, then we can cross that bridge when we come to it. As far as I'm concerned, until we have a proven strategy for fundraising, I disagree that having money in our account is not useful. I think the current budget looks pretty reasonable personally.
Cheers, Josh
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...47...> wrote:
Bryce,
Thanks for sending the summary of current finances and starting the process of developing a budget.
All,
I'm not going to have time to make detailed comments before I get back from the Sydney WG meeting (I've got a lot of prep to do and having sick kids isn't helping), but I do have one quick comment. I think the amounts allocated to LGM and the Hackfest are too small. The hackfest is vital for our future. Hopefully our campaign to raise money for it will be enough to cover all the expenses but we won't know until after it is over. We need to be able to ensure that all our active developers who want to come can be there. People need to be able to plan far enough in advance to get reasonably priced plane tickets, make work/family arrangements, etc. (BTW, the delay in getting final approval for Sydney ended up boosting the airfare $400.)
Having money sitting in our account is not very useful. We have no real need for a contingency fund. We have no assets that might break suddenly and need replacing. I'm not advocating we spend it all in one year but I do think we can be a bit more aggressive in using what we have.
Tav
On Fri, 2015-02-06 at 02:47 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
For the past four years our annual donation income has been steady at about $7,000. We have $31,000 saved from past years. I'd like to propose we budget $10,000 for expenses in FY2015.
For the $10,000 I'd further like to propose the following breakdown for categorization:
Item Budget
SVG Working Group $2,500 LGM 2015 2,500 Hackfest 2015 2,500 SCALE 250 Other events 500 Funded Development 750 Developer Education 1,000
Total $10,000
The one caveat being that targeted fundraising can increase the available amounts. For instance since $409 are raised specifically for the Hackfest, the actual amount spent could be $2,909.
Before we vote on this, any questions or thoughts to consider?
Bryce
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