[Board] 2015 Budget

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Andrew,

Thanks for this update on FOSS4G-NorthAmerica.  I especially like your 
comment about fun! I also think that the local committee did a great job 
in video archiving the talks.

-jeff




On 2015-04-30 11:10 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
> Dear Jeff, Mike, & all
>
> FWIW, I provided a number to Mike Smith regarding a payment coming soon
> for FOSS4G NA. I shared with Mike that it should be at least $5K, maybe
> a bit more. We're still processing a few late invoices from suppliers to
> be able to close the books. I have updated the table accordingly.
>
> Related, just in case some people on this list hadn't heard: FOSS4G NA
> was a great success. As a brief summary: 430 people participated. 30% of
> the audience were women. 85% of people rated the conference excellent or
> very good on the attendee survey (n=129). And, it was a lot of fun!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Andrew
>
> On 30/04/15 09:16, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hi Mike, Daniel, all,
>>
>> Although a push was made a few months ago to update the proposed OSGeo
>> Budget for 2015[1] (thank you to Markus for updating the SAC items on
>> the wiki) we still need to finalize the budget.  Can everyone (this
>> means treasurers, OSGeo committee members, Board members) review the
>> proposed budget?  I'd like to make a motion to the OSGeo Board to
>> approve the budget, before the upcoming Board meeting.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 2015-01-19 10:52 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>>> Board,
>>>
>>> As you look at budget and finances, please keep in mind that some money
>>> was earmarked for specific projects/activities in past years. I had
>>> included a note to that effect in the 2013 budget spreadsheet in Google
>>> Drive and that info got lost in the copy/paste to the Wiki
>>>
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LMsa4Udzi7pllRycFNa3Ov9j_r0hOiLJZR5rjPOUjvs/edit#gid=0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Here are the numbers I am referring to:
>>>
>>> GDAL Project Funds (guestimate):    15,000.00
>>> See: http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/SponsorshipFunds
>>>
>>> OpenLayers Project Funds (approx):    6,500.00
>>> Still being sorted out, see:
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ag1yfGJbP0RjdE1mYUduN21pTkF4TEs5dWp4Qm5iS1E#gid=0
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Those numbers are approximate because there was no clear record of the
>>> ins and outs related to those two projects in the accounting when I took
>>> over as treasurer in 2011, and I never managed to sort those out with
>>> the respective projects.
>>>
>>> Now that the IRS situation is cleared, and given that the IRS doesn't
>>> allow a non-profit to sponsor project coding directly, we have cancelled
>>> the project sponsorship program and should sort out what we do about
>>> those two amounts. I can work with Mike to help sort this out when you
>>> are ready.
>>>
>>> Daniel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2015-01-18 1:58 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>>> Hi Board and community,
>>>>
>>>> It's important that we now come up with a budget for the OSGeo
>>>> organization for 2015.  This is a great opportunity for committees such
>>>> as our Systems Architecture committee, or the Marketing committee, to
>>>> request funding to be put aside for spending for specific needs.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to a nice brief financial report from our Treasurer Mike
>>>> Smith at
>>>> the last Board meeting[1], we know that we have approximately 250,000
>>>> USD cash on hand, plus another 100,000 USD to come from Portland FOSS4G
>>>> profits shortly.
>>>>
>>>> I have started a template to record our 2015 budget in the wiki[2];
>>>> please help update it if you can. (the numbers currently are from 2014,
>>>> so everything needs to be updated)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-01-15#Minutes
>>>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2015
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -jeff
>>>>