[GRASS-PSC] Budget 2022

Sat Jan 8 12:20:17 PST 2022

Few comments, suggestions:

1. regarding unspent money from 2021 - if I remeber correctly, past OSGeo board policy was that if a project does not request the funds the given year the funds stay with OSGeo (the funds
do not roll-over to next year - this happened all the time),
but it may be worth reaching out to Michael Smith to see whether he would transfer the funds allocated for GRASS in 2021 to our account, given that we want to cover the 2021 student microgrants
and that many projects probably did not spend much money last year as well. 

2. There is a separate OSGeo budget item for code sprints - there has always been some confusion about that, so let us keep it in our budget and see what the board says.

3. Given the limited travel opportunities we could budget maybe $500-1000 to cover registration fees for on-line / hybrid conferences beyond FOSS4G to give presentations
or workshops to promote GRASS GIS development and applications to broader scientific community if there is an interest to do it.

4. I think that the students microgrants are a great idea and we should clearly split it as $2000 for 2021 and maybe $4000 for 2022.

Helena

Helena Mitasova
Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Associate Director and Faculty Fellow, Center for Geospatial Analytics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
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> On Jan 8, 2022, at 12:31 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I've looked at it and it seems reasonable. I can't offer much in the way of useful suggestions since this is being spent in Europe and you folks are more up to date on costs there. Basing it on previous years seems reasonable. 
> 
> Michael
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> 
>> On Jan 8, 2022, at 8:42 AM, Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be <mailto:mlennert at club.worldonline.be>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Vero, Hi all,
>> 
>> Am 07.01.2022 02:02 schrieb Veronica Andreo:
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> It is that time of the year :) We need to submit our budget by Jan 20,
>>> 2022.
>>> 
>>> I have already created the relevant page (1)
>> 
>> Please note that we decided to work on the budget in a spreadsheet in 
>> the OSGeo Nextcloud (file grass_project_budgets.ods, with a tab for each 
>> year, mentioned in the wiki as the download link 'Master file': 
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/dKXfqq4QkMmSkB5__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!LIT5_n7Gk9QvyNHoIPo4r-6WQBzuNjA9OM6n0knO_MO9uc5CRuYEYB641hjtgWu4tbQ$ <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/s/dKXfqq4QkMmSkB5__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!LIT5_n7Gk9QvyNHoIPo4r-6WQBzuNjA9OM6n0knO_MO9uc5CRuYEYB641hjtgWu4tbQ$> ) in order to make 
>> modifications easier while elaborating it. At the end it can be easily 
>> copied over to the wiki. I created the 2022 tab and synchronized between 
>> the wiki and the spreadsheet.
>> 
>>> and put in some suggested
>>> values thinking of in-person events for this year and offering 3x1000
>>> euro mini grants. What do you think? Do we consider travel grants as
>>> well? How many? Please, go ahead and edit directly.
>>> 
>>> @Moritz Lennert Would you please help out there with bank fees,
>>> surplus from 2021
>> 
>> I've updated the ledger in Nextcloud which represents our detailed 
>> accounts transaction by transaction. As a summary, here is our current 
>> financial situation as of Dec. 31, 2021:
>> 
>> - PayPal Money Pool: 3178.26€ (2698€ in donations in 2021)
>> - Bank Account: 869.67€ (-543,60€ spent of which -43.60€ for bank fees 
>> and taxes)
>> - OpenCollective: 206.67$ (all donations of 2021)
>> 
>> Using the exchange rate of 1.13271 $ / 1 € from xe.com <http://xe.com/> for Dec. 31, 
>> 2021, this means we have a total amount of
>> 
>> 4277.50€ or 4845.17$
>> 
>> Note that we have not received any money from OSGeo in 2021. I don't 
>> know what needs to be done to receive the amount granted ? @Helena, 
>> would you know ?
>> 
>>> (I'd substract what's already planned for Linda and
>>> Caitlin mini grants, right?) and donations (I added what's there in
>>> OpenCollective already, but was there something in the old bucket?)
>> 
>> The first 500€ for Linda were spent in 2021 and are part of the 
>> accounts. The rest (i.e. 500€ for Linda and 1000€ for Caitlin) should be 
>> part of the budget 2022. I see you have put 3000€ in planned grants. I 
>> assume that is in the idea of up to 3 new grants. So the total budget 
>> would have to be 4500€ taking into account the outstanding amounts for 
>> the already decided grants. I've taken the liberty to change the budget 
>> accordingly, but this means that it will be a big element of our budget 
>> 2022.
>> 
>> We also need to decide on whether we think that face-to-face code 
>> sprints will be possible again and so whether we need to plan for some 
>> expenses there. An option would be to reduce the planned new student 
>> grants to 2 and move 1000€ over to sprint budget. Note that we can also 
>> ask for specific sprint budget support from OSGeo.
>> 
>> I've also updated the exchange rate to the one indicated by xe.com <http://xe.com/> for 
>> Dec 31, 2021 and adapted all the amounts you already added.
>> 
>> For the planned income, I've indicated a sponsoring target of 2000€. I 
>> think that this is ambitious, but doable, if we have a proactive 
>> campaign and remind/inform people regularly, including with news about 
>> what the money has brought for GRASS GIS.
>> 
>> Moritz
>> 
>>> 
>>> Looking forward to hearing from you
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Vero
>>> 
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