[OSGeo Finance] Budget - how to reach closure for the board?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Folks,

The board will be meeting Dec 12th, and I think we need to recommend a
2009 budget to them at that meeting.

I have reviewed the budget and added one additional supporting (10K) and
one additional associate (3K) sponsorship to bring the budget essentially
into balance.  This means, overall, we need to bring in $63K in new
sponsorship in 2009 (an aggressive goal).

Howard is talking with SAC about what SAC might want in addition, or instead
of, the proposed $2500 for a new beefy server.  I'm not sure what will come of
that, but it seems unlikely we will have a detailed proposal in the next
few days.

Marketing has not presented any sort of budget proposal for how their proposed
$50K will be spent, though they are discussing it.

Ultimately I think it is the Finance committees job to ensure that
predictable expenses in the budget are realistic but that it is up to
the board to set policy like balancing SAC vs. Marketing spending - or
whether we will assume additional sponsorships.  So, I'm thinking we ought
to approve the budget as it stands now at:

   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2009

Before calling for a motion on this, I'd like to hear thoughts from others
on the Finance Committee.

Best regards,
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