<div dir="ltr">Hi Andreas<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Just a belated 'thanks!' for doing this! I changed the column headers in 'C' and 'H' columns from 'Amount' to 'Budget' - I hope that is ok?</div><div><br></div><div>Do you plan to have a separate line item for the server work to make things clearer?</div><div><br></div><div>Also I wonder if we shouldn't just embed the spreadsheet (and for future years) directly in the web site? I think as an open project it would be good to have the finances transparently visible through the year and not just in our year-end reports?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Andreas Neumann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andreas@qgis.org" target="_blank">andreas@qgis.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Tim, Brent, all,<br><br></div>During the voting process of QGIS server funding, Brent Wood, voting member, asked about the current situation. Of course this is a valid request and I should have provided the information upfront.<br><br></div>This document (link below) is the 2017 budget, in a separate column I filled in the actual income and expenses (with today's date):<br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gwm83ENnIqNk0Hul-OlqggTHU4QeTqA-DvPmX8kK88/edit#gid=0" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/<wbr>spreadsheets/d/<wbr>18gwm83ENnIqNk0Hul-<wbr>OlqggTHU4QeTqA-DvPmX8kK88/<wbr>edit#gid=0</a><br><br></div><div>you probably have to ask for permissions, if you want to access this document.<br></div><div><br></div>In the very bottom, you can also find the current bank balance.<br><br></div>Note that the QGIS server contribution was not originally in the budget, that's why you can't find it there, once we decided - and if positiv, paid, I will add it in the actual expenses column.<br><br></div>I do think that the additional investment in QGIS server makes sense, because<br><br></div>a) the Essen dev meeting was less expensive than budgeted and we have a promise that the FOSSGIS asssocation, Germany, will support this hackfest with 2.5 k € (not received yet)<br></div>b) as it appears, the 16 k € in the 2.18 bug fixing section won't be fully exploited (unfortunately the core devs are too busy to work on bug fixing, which I do regret because I think more efforts and funds should go into bug fixing and QA)<br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>c) the bank balance on January 1 was € 45'370 - so we have some reserves, even if there is a small loss during 2017<br></div><div>d) it is important to get refactoring and API breaking changes in to 3.0 - after that there can't be any API changes for probably 2 years<br></div><div>e) on the income side we are well on track with >50 % of the estimated income already received, esp. regarding the sponsorships<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope this makes sense - if you have more questions regarding our funds, please do ask!<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div>Andreas<br><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="m_4770375199428841717gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>--<br>Andreas Neumann<br></div><a href="http://QGIS.ORG" target="_blank">QGIS.ORG</a> board member (treasurer)<br></div></div>
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