2015 Budget actuals
Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget:
https://inkscape.org/en/about/governance/budget/
Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know.
For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal.
Bryce
On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 00:35 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget:
Thanks for doing this!
Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know.
I don't understand the entries for the Hackfest. Where does the $13,721.87 number come from? The last entry suggests that we got $6857.87 in Hackfest donations. Are some of these donations from 2014?
There should be a minus sign before the $5,724... or the numbers don't add up.
I attended two SVG WG meetings last year, Sydney and Linkoping. I was reimbursed $2250 for Sydney and $900 for Linkoping. The "budgeted" amount was just for the Sydney trip as that was approved before the budget was created.
What is our current balance? (Is the $31,000 number at the top from last year, or has it been updated?)
For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal.
I definitely agree that we could be a bit more aggressive. The book program was an excellent idea (I still use the book that I got).
BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He might have a local sponsor.
Tav
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:10:43AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 00:35 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget:
Thanks for doing this!
Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know.
I don't understand the entries for the Hackfest. Where does the $13,721.87 number come from? The last entry suggests that we got $6857.87 in Hackfest donations. Are some of these donations from 2014?
There should be a minus sign before the $5,724... or the numbers don't add up.
Yes, you're right.
I attended two SVG WG meetings last year, Sydney and Linkoping. I was reimbursed $2250 for Sydney and $900 for Linkoping. The "budgeted" amount was just for the Sydney trip as that was approved before the budget was created.
What is our current balance? (Is the $31,000 number at the top from last year, or has it been updated?)
I think this is a correct tally:
Year Income Expenses Change Total FY2006 $3,399.50 $3399.50 $3399.50 FY2007 $10,232.65 $-4,718.00 $5514.65 $8914.15 FY2008 $358.48 $-460.98 $-102.50 $8811.65 FY2009 $2,784.57 $-500.00 $2284.57 $11096.22 FY2010 $4,803.28 $-2,081.60 $2721.68 $13817.90 FY2011 $8,798.50 $-2,314.98 $6483.52 $20301.42 FY2012 $6,957.72 $-1,653.90 $5303.82 $25605.24 FY2013 $8,068.04 $-2,501.70 $5566.34 $31171.58 FY2014 $13,338.47 $-9,604.68 $3733.79 $34905.37 FY2015 $12,623.62 $-7,974.42 $4649.20 $39554.57
To check:
$ -31,810.26 Expenses:Inkscape $ 71,364.83 Income:Inkscape -------------------- $ 39,554.57
For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal.
I definitely agree that we could be a bit more aggressive. The book program was an excellent idea (I still use the book that I got).
Yeah agreed. With what time I can scrape up I'm going to try to stay focused on the funded development, but I hope the rest of y'all can come up with good ideas like the book program to put the donations to effective use in the mean time.
BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He might have a local sponsor.
Good, we have a meeting in a couple days which might be an opportunity for getting decisions from the board that he needs in order to move forward. I forget what dates were scoped out but if it's prior to March 1st we can organize a vote to approve funds (there's such excess from last year's hackfest this should be no problem). If it's after march 1st, then it'd be nice to have a rough guestimate to pencil in for budgeting.
Bryce
BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He might have a local sponsor.
Good, we have a meeting in a couple days which might be an opportunity for getting decisions from the board that he needs in order to move forward. I forget what dates were scoped out but if it's prior to March 1st we can organize a vote to approve funds (there's such excess from last year's hackfest this should be no problem). If it's after march 1st, then it'd be nice to have a rough guestimate to pencil in for budgeting.
LGM is April 15-18th so the hackfest would be just before or after. I suggest penciling in 50% more for the hackfest than last year under the assumption that costs will be similar and we hope to have more participants.
Tav
On Wed, Dec 02, 2015 at 08:44:23PM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
BTW, Alex is working on details for a Leeds Hackfest proposal. He might have a local sponsor.
Good, we have a meeting in a couple days which might be an opportunity for getting decisions from the board that he needs in order to move forward. I forget what dates were scoped out but if it's prior to March 1st we can organize a vote to approve funds (there's such excess from last year's hackfest this should be no problem). If it's after march 1st, then it'd be nice to have a rough guestimate to pencil in for budgeting.
LGM is April 15-18th so the hackfest would be just before or after. I suggest penciling in 50% more for the hackfest than last year under the assumption that costs will be similar and we hope to have more participants.
Okay, sounds good.
Bryce
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 11:10:43AM +0100, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 00:35 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget:
Thanks for doing this!
Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know.
I don't understand the entries for the Hackfest. Where does the $13,721.87 number come from? The last entry suggests that we got $6857.87 in Hackfest donations. Are some of these donations from 2014?
There should be a minus sign before the $5,724... or the numbers don't add up.
I attended two SVG WG meetings last year, Sydney and Linkoping. I was reimbursed $2250 for Sydney and $900 for Linkoping. The "budgeted" amount was just for the Sydney trip as that was approved before the budget was created.
What is our current balance? (Is the $31,000 number at the top from last year, or has it been updated?)
For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal.
I definitely agree that we could be a bit more aggressive. The book program was an excellent idea (I still use the book that I got).
We could do an expanded version of the book program - increase the number of people we give books to and/or increase the book options. Would anyone like to propose books to send out?
I think we gave books to about 10 people last time, we could make that 15 or 20 this time. Or give 2 books per person.
We could also consider going beyond mere programming and also provide e.g. design/drawing books or similar.
Bryce
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:35:57AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Donna and I have gone through the ledger records to add an Actuals column for the 2015 budget:
This is now updated to fix the suggestions that came up in review, thanks. We've also renamed the page to budget_2015 so we can bring in budget_2016 when it's ready.
Bryce
Note that FY2015 isn't over yet, so there could well be more expenses to come. Also I'm not certain we've captured everything 100% perfectly so if anything looks weird lemme know.
For 2016, I think we could be more aggressive in our spending plans. It feels to me that we could afford to be more liberal in our conference attendance sponsorships. It would be great to also see more activities like last year's book program; main limiting factor has just been finding folks to do the coordination legwork, so anyone interested in organizing something like that please send in a proposal.
Bryce
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