Howdy folks,
Updating finances for Friday's meeting and noticing that we have a few open stipend opportunities that folks have decided not to take. No criticism there, but we have no way to close them off our books (and I don't feel I can do so unilaterally). It feels like to me that they should have an expiration similar to the SFC travel policy, which is 90 days. Would folks support that as a policy? Or do we think it should just be included when allocating them? Or just a "clean up" vote every few months? I'm open to whatever, just trying to clean up our books. Ted
I guess I forgot to request a stipend for hiring committee work. If it’s still open, I guess I can still request it (like before we change policy)? Can you confirm the ticket number for me, I’m sorry I’ve lost it :(
I’d support a vote to apply the same expiration we have in the travel policy to the stipend policy, I can’t think of a reason why not.
René
Am 05.07.2023 um 22:02 schrieb Ted Gould ted@gould.cx:
Howdy folks,
Updating finances for Friday's meeting and noticing that we have a few open stipend opportunities that folks have decided not to take. No criticism there, but we have no way to close them off our books (and I don't feel I can do so unilaterally). It feels like to me that they should have an expiration similar to the SFC travel policy, which is 90 days. Would folks support that as a policy? Or do we think it should just be included when allocating them? Or just a "clean up" vote every few months?
I'm open to whatever, just trying to clean up our books.
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Hi Ted,
While I do agree that this is an issue and we should solve this (with a simple vote for a stipend policy), let’s summarize the outstanding stipends: - AI Extension Mentor: Project still ongoing, I will request the stipend to cover expenses for Creative Cloud license which I need(ed) for creating test files. - AI Hiring team and GTK hiring team: a ticket has been created with the SFC’s tracker. This is waiting for SFC. Whether or not to request the stipend is a personal decision should be private by default, so people were rightfully hesitant to write that into the ticket. Both of these are waiting for SFC (one of them since April). Given the usual SFC delay, 90 days seem really tight. Best regards Jonathan
Am 05.07.2023 um 22:02 schrieb Ted Gould ted@gould.cx:
Howdy folks,
Updating finances for Friday's meeting and noticing that we have a few open stipend opportunities that folks have decided not to take. No criticism there, but we have no way to close them off our books (and I don't feel I can do so unilaterally). It feels like to me that they should have an expiration similar to the SFC travel policy, which is 90 days. Would folks support that as a policy? Or do we think it should just be included when allocating them? Or just a "clean up" vote every few months?
I'm open to whatever, just trying to clean up our books.
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It is my assumption that the clock starts ticking only after all of the bureaucratic work is done/all approvals have been given and not a day sooner.
Otherwise that’s like saying „you can go grocery shopping between 8am and 8pm“ and once you’re at the store there’s a sign „we don’t open till 12pm“.
Am 05.07.2023 um 22:23 schrieb Jonathan Neuhauser jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com:
Hi Ted,
While I do agree that this is an issue and we should solve this (with a simple vote for a stipend policy), let’s summarize the outstanding stipends:
- AI Extension Mentor: Project still ongoing, I will request the stipend to cover expenses for Creative Cloud license which I need(ed) for creating test files.
- AI Hiring team and GTK hiring team: a ticket has been created with the SFC’s tracker. This is waiting for SFC. Whether or not to request the stipend is a personal decision should be private by default, so people were rightfully hesitant to write that into the ticket. Both of these are waiting for SFC (one of them since April).
Given the usual SFC delay, 90 days seem really tight. Best regards Jonathan
Am 05.07.2023 um 22:02 schrieb Ted Gould ted@gould.cx:
Howdy folks,
Updating finances for Friday's meeting and noticing that we have a few open stipend opportunities that folks have decided not to take. No criticism there, but we have no way to close them off our books (and I don't feel I can do so unilaterally). It feels like to me that they should have an expiration similar to the SFC travel policy, which is 90 days. Would folks support that as a policy? Or do we think it should just be included when allocating them? Or just a "clean up" vote every few months?
I'm open to whatever, just trying to clean up our books.
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On Jul 5 2023, at 3:23 pm, Jonathan Neuhauser jonathan.neuhauser@outlook.com wrote:
While I do agree that this is an issue and we should solve this (with a simple vote for a stipend policy), let’s summarize the outstanding stipends:
- AI Extension Mentor: Project still ongoing, I will request the stipend to cover expenses for Creative Cloud license which I need(ed) for creating test files.
So yes, I agree with René that it should be time after "the project is complete" -- what ever that means for the stipend. Hiring, when hired. Mentoring, when the project is complete.
- AI Hiring team and GTK hiring team: a ticket has been created with the SFC’s tracker. This is waiting for SFC. Whether or not to request the stipend is a personal decision should be private by default, so people were rightfully hesitant to write that into the ticket. Both of these are waiting for SFC (one of them since April).
I don't think we're waiting for anything on the SFC here? It's authorized and we have an RT ticket. It just takes people to ask for reimbursement on that ticket. I'm a bit confused on what you're saying about it being private. Not sure we have quite a way to do that, what are you thinking? Also, I'll note that those aren't the only two stipends open. We technically still have open the stipend for Summer Project mentors for 2022. (and 2023, but that isn't complete yet)
Given the usual SFC delay, 90 days seem really tight.
I would say "submitted by", not that it would be reimbursed by. Which I think removes a lot of the delay in the SFC. But, also I just picked 90 days out of a hat because it matched the travel policy. I'd be happy with a different number you'd prefer (180?) Ted
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