[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-psc] QGIS budget 2023 RFC

[Vincent Picavet (ml)]

Hello,

Thanks for sharing the budget with the community.

A few questions / remarks :
- in most countries, we can see a general inflation, having consequences on every kind of costs ( hosting, salaries…). Did you take this context into account when preparing the budget, especially when basing planned 2023 costs on actual 2022 costs ?
- the cut on Grant budget is really hard. With a "reasonable" mean budget of 5K per grant, this would mean 2 grants only this year. It sounds more or less like the end of the grant program. Who would candidate if chances to be selected are really low ? Wouldn't there be a way to mitigate it a bit, through various smaller budget reductions to other budget lines ? The increase in documentation contribution is huge compared to the grant decrease. I fear that we loose grants as a mean to attract new core developers.

My most important remark is about "allow for a regular small salary .. for one person on each item". Disclaimer : I am quite strongly against QGIS.org having employees. If we are in the process of having "regular workers" for qgis.org, then we really have to work hard on :
- having a clear, written and transparent process for how to select these people
- .. process including a fair way for anyone to candidate
I may have missed some communications, but I have not seen this in place up to now. This is definitely something we have to put in place before having some internal troubles.

Best regards,
Vincent

On 24/11/2022 12:07, Marco Bernasocchi wrote:
> Hi all, we prepared the QGIS budget for 2023 and would like to have
> feedback before submitting it to the voting members for approval. You
> can directly leave comments in the file [1].
> 
> Please let us have any Feedback until December 4th. On december 7th
> we'll send the budget for vote.
> 
> Cheers Marco
> 
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WyoZCKOehNhU5YB4pFPOuiJbie1mUmMPiq8YW7qyez0/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1WyoZCKOehNhU5YB4pFPOuiJbie1mUmMPiq8YW7qyez0/edit?usp=sharing>
>
>  -- Marco Bernasocchi
> 
> QGIS.org Chair OPENGIS.ch CEO http://berna.io <http://berna.io>
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