[OSGeo-Board] Spending Approvals, Money, etc

[Gary Lang]

I am looking forward to seeing all of this happen.

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...?

Gary

--- Original Message ---
From: "Arnulf Christl (CCGIS)" <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de>
Sent: Wed 8/23/06 5:02 pm
To: "board at board.osgeo.org" <board at board.osgeo.org>
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Spending Approvals, Money, etc


On Wed, August 23, 2006 22:43, Gary Lang wrote:
> Good. We're still within budget.

Oh, I am so slow to catch on. This was what all the budget talk was about.

I was just thinking the other way round and saying once we *have* the
money (after FunCom got active) we can spend it. To me all this budget
talk did not make sense until we have the cash sitting on the account.
Maybe I am wrong about this.

But then we know what OSGeo needs, 500k for one year. Thats 125k for the
next three months and that also buys you (Adsk) into a nice and cozy
environment for MapGuide. I begged Tyler to send you the plan regarding
50k for administration of the website by OSUOSL which will be the starter
of that environment.

Regards,

> Laura, pls work with Ken to mae sure this is covered. May I assume that
> shirts were recommended by Viscom or someone else as well?
>
> All, I would still like to see a budget for the next 3 months. I don't
> want to be the driver here. Will I find this on the Wiki? If not the next
> board meeting will hopefully draw one up.
>
> Of particular interest to me are the infrastructure budgeting plans. If
> OSGeo cannot build one then the MapGuide project will have to build one on
> its own. That will obviously reduce the funds I have for OSGeo sponsorship
> which would pain mepersonally after all of the effort I've put into it.
> But like I keep saying, our number one duty is to do good work for our
> projects.
>
> Gary
>
> --- Original Message ---
> From: "Arnulf Christl" <arnulf.christl at ccgis.de>
> Sent: Wed 8/23/06 4:30 pm
> To: "board at board.osgeo.org" <board at board.osgeo.org>,
> "dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org" <dev at visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Spending Approvals, Money, etc
>
> On Wed, August 23, 2006 20:16, Gary Lang wrote:
>> And in case I wasn't clear, OSGeo is not comprised of children. So let's
>> not use child rearing techniques to manage the business of OSGeo.
>
> :-)
>
> In near future VisCom needs:
> $500 for shirts to go to Asia (last mail by Venka, prob. all giveaways,
> I'd suggest to have Venka make good use of any leftovers)
> $500 for shirts at the FOSS4G (maybe people will pay / cash? i'll be
> sitting in the booth and can collect it..:-) Real(!) cool would be to have
> one shirt  for every conference registrant. But thats more than $500,-.
> I'd be prepared to suggest this to VisCom as a good investment but I do
> not because from all that I know OSGeo does not have any money to do this.
> Thoughts?
> $100 for shirts at EuroOSCON (booth staff, if OSGeo doesn't get it done I
> will)
>
> Booth equipment, infrastructure at both EU events are taken care of by
> Tina Mena, Autodesk. Thanks a lot. Autodesk will be displayed on the
> booth, so attribution is in place. There will be no additional expenses
> (afaik) to OSGeo VisCom by operating the booth.
>
>> --- Original Message ---
>> From: "Gary Lang" <gary.lang at autodesk.com>
>> Sent: Wed 8/23/06 2:08 pm
>> To: "Frank Warmerdam (External
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