Budget 2016
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Robert Deutz
Dec 12, 2015, 1:15:14 PM12/12/15
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Hi fellow leadership!
Just a few days and the year 2015 (as long you are following the Gregorian calendar) is over.
If I am not totally wrong the transition process didn’t makes so much progress within the last two weeks and we can’t seriously expect a transition to the new structure will be finished within the next two weeks. Most likely the process will be not finished before February.
I don’t think we as the Joomla! Leadership can just sit and wait, the project need a minimum of attention and action. We don’t have a budget for 2016, so far we didn’t started to discuss it. I see three options:
a) We use the not spent budget from 2015 for activities in 2016. This will work for some time for the PLT I don’t know how this will work for other teams.
b) We look at the 2015 budget and allow teams to spent 1/12 per month of the corrected budget in 2016.
CLT: 221868/12 = 18489
OSM: 142647/12 = 11887
PLT: 123148/12 = 10262
c) We start the full budget process, with discussing goals and creating a budget for 2016. For the PLT I think we can prepare something within two weeks, again not sure what the other team can do.
The forth option not doing anything and let the project in a situation also to be financial paralyzed is a disaster I’ll not think about.
It is our responsibility to sort things out so that Joomla! as a project can do needed activities, we can’t put this on the shoulders of the new (to be elected) leadership.
What do others think?
Cheers,
Robert
Just a few days and the year 2015 (as long you are following the Gregorian calendar) is over.
If I am not totally wrong the transition process didn’t makes so much progress within the last two weeks and we can’t seriously expect a transition to the new structure will be finished within the next two weeks. Most likely the process will be not finished before February.
I don’t think we as the Joomla! Leadership can just sit and wait, the project need a minimum of attention and action. We don’t have a budget for 2016, so far we didn’t started to discuss it. I see three options:
a) We use the not spent budget from 2015 for activities in 2016. This will work for some time for the PLT I don’t know how this will work for other teams.
b) We look at the 2015 budget and allow teams to spent 1/12 per month of the corrected budget in 2016.
CLT: 221868/12 = 18489
OSM: 142647/12 = 11887
PLT: 123148/12 = 10262
c) We start the full budget process, with discussing goals and creating a budget for 2016. For the PLT I think we can prepare something within two weeks, again not sure what the other team can do.
The forth option not doing anything and let the project in a situation also to be financial paralyzed is a disaster I’ll not think about.
It is our responsibility to sort things out so that Joomla! as a project can do needed activities, we can’t put this on the shoulders of the new (to be elected) leadership.
What do others think?
Cheers,
Robert
Ronni Christiansen
Dec 12, 2015, 1:35:33 PM12/12/15
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Unless a budget process is in the Works id go with option B minus 10% for unforseen costs.
And then id suggest setting up a budget process goal with a start date from say 1. april.
That way the budget process should cover april to december of 2016 and the first quater is covered by last years budgeting minus 10%.
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Victor Drover
Dec 14, 2015, 7:51:42 AM12/14/15
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Our spending is really limited if we don't approve a budget. Basically, we can only spend on bare essentials like domain registrations and server costs.
As for the transition, at our FiT summit we decided that in the normal budget process, we would include a field for folks to specify what department would inherit the line item after the transition.
Time is unfortunately against us, primarily since we the re-budgeting for 2015 was happening when we normally would have been budgeting for 2016.
I'll send a message to Robert Deutz and Peter Bui — the PLT and CLT budget liaison's — to get started on on 2016.
Warm Regards,
Victor Drover
Treasurer, Open Source Matters
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