<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Andreas<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you so much for preparing this. Here are a few comments from me:</div><span class=""><br class=""></span><span class=""><br class="">Other suggested budget items:<br class="">Package maintenance - Windows<br class="">Package maintenance - Mac<br class="">Package maintenance - Linux / Debian / Ubuntu<br class=""><br class="">Rationale: I think it would be good to pay something towards all the effort it takes Jürgen in particular puts into making the packages, and in future also support Larry to maintain ‘first class’ MacOS packages.<br class=""><br class="">Expected income: Should there not be.a ‘balance brought forward’ with any projected remaining cash from 2017 shown as an income for 2018? If we did that there would surely be an extra n thousand available for our activities.</span><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">I 100% agree about the PR management that we could as one of the devs to take on as a part time ‘job’. I would like to also propose that because there is such a long backlog of items in the queue that we have a special sprint from that person (e.g. 1 week of funding) to triage the existing queue (as a separate activity to reviewing the regularly incoming PR’s).</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Our SWAG budget underspend: Can I suggest we actually do use it - I think it is a wasted opportunity to market our project. Perhaps we could start by buying a bunch of t-shirts / caps etc and brining them along to Madeira and just handing them out to all attendees - a small reward for the effort they put into supporting the project? I can probably do it from here if nobody else is interested to help with it.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Glad to see you added in more cash for the Python API docs….and for docs in general.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">I also want to suggest that with cash brought forward from 2017 if we have additional cash that we take the first steps to hiring a develop on a e.g. one day a week basis to do ‘work in the interests of the project’ - thinking for example of the welcome screen / user experience stuff we discussed in Nødebo and other high value effort which does not fit neatly into a grant and which contractor work would generally not attract. It would add EUR41,600 to our budget but I think we could ask the developer for a cheaper rate since it is long term guaranteed work. I think we could couple this with a funding drive and updating our sponsorship prices a bit e.g. move bronze up to EUR 800 or 100EUR.</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Regards</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="">Tim</span></div><div class=""><span class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 06 Dec 2017, at 22:24, Andreas Neumann <<a href="mailto:a.neumann@carto.net" class="">a.neumann@carto.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I am working on the 2018 budget (as the tax authorities want them soon) - how many releases shall I take into account in 2018? 2 or 3?<br class=""><br class="">Shall I put aside a certain amount for managing PR queue and travis? Personally I think it would make sense.<br class=""><br class="">Please see my draft for the 2018 budget at <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WphBgUOx0abTJ_33jRVqFTkRU7KYrg8GyBLFdkYC2hw/edit#gid=" class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WphBgUOx0abTJ_33jRVqFTkRU7KYrg8GyBLFdkYC2hw/edit#gid=</a>0<br class=""><br class="">and see the 2017 one (with actual current numbers) at <br class=""><br class="">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18gwm83ENnIqNk0Hul-OlqggTHU4QeTqA-DvPmX8kK88/edit#gid=0<br class=""><br class="">Do you foresee other expenses I did not list yet? Do you see other sources of income or have other estimates?<br class=""><br class="">Thanks and greetings,<br class=""><br class="">Andreas<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">Qgis-psc mailing list<br class="">Qgis-psc@lists.osgeo.org<br class="">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-psc<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"> </span><span><img apple-inline="yes" id="3809E7FE-5CA0-4151-8FE4-113B328E192D" src="cid:B67F6A36-B856-4FD5-91BC-5BDE8990D373" class=""></span><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">---<br class=""><br class="">Tim Sutton<br class="">QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair<br class=""><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" class="">tim@qgis.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""></span></div></body></html>