Thanks Ted,
I think this is an important discussion, and the kind of high bandwidth type of talk that the video meetings are designed to handle. So I'd like to invite everyone to come on Thursday¹ to the Leadership video meeting, note: the meeting is recorded.
We would talk about the following speculative questions:
1. How much money should we end 2022 with? This is a rhetorical question for framing out responsibility differently wrt to funding.
2. Do we have a "Principle of Paying" which can make decisions easier? I have some ideas about how to phrase such a principle, but this is to construct a simple first test for any money related item.
3. How do we solve the problem of over-engineering our task funding to allow the project to pay people, while not requiring a full time volunteer to babysit the contractor? Should we pay people for specific admin tasks too?
And if we have time, we can talk about some of the tasks the project should fund. things like release management, videos, doc writing, mentor stipends, team leading/administration etc.
We can continue the discussion in text too, I'll report the meeting notes to this thread plus recording link for those who can't come at this time.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
¹ https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/ink-exm-ate - 9th Dec 2021, 17:00 UTC / 12:00 EST
On Fri, 2021-12-03 at 10:03 -0600, Ted Gould wrote:
Howdy folks,
So I think we should really have a budget, even if we don't follow it 100%, just a good practice and idea. We basically stopped doing it in 2018. My idea is to put something very high level and simple together, nothing exciting mostly just our regular stuff (for instance we can still vote for one-off things here an there, etc.). But I do want us to feel like we have a plan and instead of financial reports just being numbers be related to something.
My goal is to have something we can vote on by the end of the calendar year.
If you've got ideas, please reply to this thread or ping me on chat sometime.
Ted
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