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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I am looking forward to seeing all of this happen.<BR>
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By budget, I mean something more granular than the annual budget. It is not something you do by dividing by 4 or 2. Do we need more money in quarter 3 or...?<BR>
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Gary<BR>
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--- Original Message ---<BR>
From: "Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)" <arnulf.christl@ccgis.de><BR>
Sent: Wed 8/23/06 5:02 pm<BR>
To: "board@board.osgeo.org" <board@board.osgeo.org><BR>
Cc:<BR>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Spending Approvals, Money, etc<BR>
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On Wed, August 23, 2006 22:43, Gary Lang wrote:<BR>
> Good. We're still within budget.<BR>
<BR>
Oh, I am so slow to catch on. This was what all the budget talk was about.<BR>
<BR>
I was just thinking the other way round and saying once we *have* the<BR>
money (after FunCom got active) we can spend it. To me all this budget<BR>
talk did not make sense until we have the cash sitting on the account.<BR>
Maybe I am wrong about this.<BR>
<BR>
But then we know what OSGeo needs, 500k for one year. Thats 125k for the<BR>
next three months and that also buys you (Adsk) into a nice and cozy<BR>
environment for MapGuide. I begged Tyler to send you the plan regarding<BR>
50k for administration of the website by OSUOSL which will be the starter<BR>
of that environment.<BR>
<BR>
Regards,<BR>
<BR>
> Laura, pls work with Ken to mae sure this is covered. May I assume that<BR>
> shirts were recommended by Viscom or someone else as well?<BR>
><BR>
> All, I would still like to see a budget for the next 3 months. I don't<BR>
> want to be the driver here. Will I find this on the Wiki? If not the next<BR>
> board meeting will hopefully draw one up.<BR>
><BR>
> Of particular interest to me are the infrastructure budgeting plans. If<BR>
> OSGeo cannot build one then the MapGuide project will have to build one on<BR>
> its own. That will obviously reduce the funds I have for OSGeo sponsorship<BR>
> which would pain mepersonally after all of the effort I've put into it.<BR>
> But like I keep saying, our number one duty is to do good work for our<BR>
> projects.<BR>
><BR>
> Gary<BR>
><BR>
> --- Original Message ---<BR>
> From: "Arnulf Christl" <arnulf.christl@ccgis.de><BR>
> Sent: Wed 8/23/06 4:30 pm<BR>
> To: "board@board.osgeo.org" <board@board.osgeo.org>,<BR>
> "dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org" <dev@visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org><BR>
> Cc:<BR>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Spending Approvals, Money, etc<BR>
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> On Wed, August 23, 2006 20:16, Gary Lang wrote:<BR>
>> And in case I wasn't clear, OSGeo is not comprised of children. So let's<BR>
>> not use child rearing techniques to manage the business of OSGeo.<BR>
><BR>
> :-)<BR>
><BR>
> In near future VisCom needs:<BR>
> $500 for shirts to go to Asia (last mail by Venka, prob. all giveaways,<BR>
> I'd suggest to have Venka make good use of any leftovers)<BR>
> $500 for shirts at the FOSS4G (maybe people will pay / cash? i'll be<BR>
> sitting in the booth and can collect it..:-) Real(!) cool would be to have<BR>
> one shirt for every conference registrant. But thats more than $500,-.<BR>
> I'd be prepared to suggest this to VisCom as a good investment but I do<BR>
> not because from all that I know OSGeo does not have any money to do this.<BR>
> Thoughts?<BR>
> $100 for shirts at EuroOSCON (booth staff, if OSGeo doesn't get it done I<BR>
> will)<BR>
><BR>
> Booth equipment, infrastructure at both EU events are taken care of by<BR>
> Tina Mena, Autodesk. Thanks a lot. Autodesk will be displayed on the<BR>
> booth, so attribution is in place. There will be no additional expenses<BR>
> (afaik) to OSGeo VisCom by operating the booth.<BR>
><BR>
>> --- Original Message ---<BR>
>> From: "Gary Lang" <gary.lang@autodesk.com><BR>
>> Sent: Wed 8/23/06 2:08 pm<BR>
>> To: "Frank Warmerdam (External</FONT>
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