Dear PLC,
Thank you to everyone who came to the budget meeting yesterday. It was quite a busy and intense discussion, even for this high level overview meeting. Big thanks to pono from the SFC for assisting and giving us some solid information.
Attendees: Tav, Marc, Chris, Josh, Martin, René, Jabier, Ishaan, Pono Meeting Chair: Martin The video meeting is recorded here: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9b... 1 hour 12 minutes
We've set a budget of between $80k and $175k for 2022. We expect to spend at least $80k and the feeling was that it's time for us to stop growing our hoard of money and start spending it.
The project has many needs, which we currently ask volunteers to do. But many of these tasks are things we need and shouldn't depend on waiting for volunteers, so the basic principle was put forward that "if the project is asking for the work to be done, then the project should be paying for it." This was used a guideline to find items we should be budgeting for.
Attached you will find the earmarks that we created for each section of the budget. There are some notes:
1. The release manager stipend isn't currently needed, Marc's employer is kindly covering this expense and it's noted here in case we need to have this item in consideration for future budgets. 2. We have one Outreachy internship unused from last cycle, this coming year we will likely only need at most one more. This earmark should cover that. 3. We lack a documentation lead, or any contributor able to step up and look after documentation. If there's anyone you can remember from the past who'd be interested in getting involved, we've earmarked a small budget to help with costs for that area should we need it.
Each of the items require another meeting to discuss their details further. This is especially true of the two big ticket items for the admin and the developer budget. Please do come to these meetings, which will be help via video again and recorded for transparency. Dates are attached.
Again, a big thank you to everyone. Taking our budgeting responsibilities seriously has been a high priority for us in the leadership committee and it's great to finally feel like we are starting to see the wheels move.
Best Regards, Martin Owens