[SAC] 1st Meeting in a long time - May 2016

[Harrison Grundy]

Just thought it might be worth noting, as one of the more recent paid OSGeo contractors, we ended up working from a bid amount for the specific task.

While we missed our estimate by quite a bit internally, that process provided OSGeo with some useful certainty around how much money was required to solve a particular problem.

Perhaps it's worth applying a similar model here, at least when it comes to specific things? If nothing else, it also serves to demonstrate to the board where additional funding would be applied, specifically. 

--- Harrison 

On May 14, 2016 3:15:10 AM GMT+09:00, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:
>On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 07:33:33PM +0200, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
>
>> > https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/SAC:May2016#Funding_sysadmin_work
>> 
>> strk> current budget seems to low to allow for a new contract, so I
>> think we should be asking for more
>> 
>> What actually is "too low"? How much it is now?
>> How much do you suggest to as for?
>> Roughly, a range is always better than description.
>
>I turned "too low" into a link to budget for 2016, which is slightly
>less than 13K USD. If we had to only spend in sysadmin time it would
>allow for ~1K USD month. That's ~885 EUR. How much sysadmin time can
>that amount buy ? At the rate QGIS is currently offering to bugfixers
>that'd make less than 10 hours per month. Is that enough to improve
>the infrastructural situation ? I don't believe so.
>
>--strk;
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