On 6-2-2015 21:35, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 02:46:33PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
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.
My my, the money's really burning a hole in your pocket Tav!
Seriously though, $10k is burning a full third of our savings, that seems plenty aggressive to me.
Also note that we're directing people to donate directly to hackfest, so "the kitty" as you call it is not going to get refilled from donations this year.
Thanks for bringing up the budget proposal Bryce and for the financial overview. The budgeting of course becomes a sizable amount of work if fully written out with income/budgeting done properly, which I don't think need be done.
Shouldn't we include the expect 'income' in this discussion ? In that case, from the past years, we can expect ~$7k (plus perhaps some extra if hackfest PR works). That means we'd expect to be spending ~3k of our savings. Not saying we should spend much more, but wanted to give some counter to spending 1/3 of our savings.
I am not up-to-date on the Hackfest planning, but I assume LGM+Hackfest=5k is enough? (the 5k would be total cost, regardless of how the money is gathered (our savings or donations))
Perhaps we could include a small budget for "items" type of stuff? Stickers or t-shirts? (even though we may expect/intend to sell the items, it is still a cost initially)
cheers, Johan
Bryce
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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