Following on from the comments received so far...
Conference
We have not yet received a budget from the Conference Committee so it it is
difficult to allocate a budget. I suspect we just carried over the proposed
budget from last year. I am in agreement with JB's comments that there is
opportunity to gain sponsorship etc. but at this time this is not in place. We
do need an alternative source(s) of revenue. Sponsorship is one, grants are
another. All involve significant amount of effort on an ongoing basis to
continually engage with prospective entities. My personal opinion is that we
illustrate the worst case scenario, allowing a certain degree of flexibility.
Although the last conference nearly broke even, every conference is a financial
risk to OSGeo Oceania and I feel feel the budget needs to reflect that. With
the complications of Covid I feel we still need to take a cautious approach for
21/22. Would welcome further discussion on this as it is a major budget item.
Good Mojo
As I understand it (Alex feel free to chip in) we have ~$8000 'tagged' as for
Good Mojo. I am not sure why we have tagged it $0, but I suspect that has to do
with that Good Mojo Funds have been used to fund various activities that fall
under other budget activities (for example Women's Breakfasts) So to be clear
it is not missing. Maybe there is a better way to illustrate this within the
budget? We have budgeted for Outreach and community support. Maybe make
available some Good Mojo funds to this or Microgrants etc.
Microgrants
Eli presented an update to the Board and if I understand correctly we have 2
grants approved out of 7 applications (with 2 declined and 3 awaiting more
information). Great to see the momentum growing. Yes early days but agree that
budget should be revised for this. Maybe the best way to manage this is for the
Microgrant Committee to submit a budget request? Then this can be considered as
part of the budget.
SIGs
We have proposed a budget allocation of $2,500 to each SIG. (This is indicated
in the 21/22 tab). As per Martin's comments I feel we should provide 'seed'
funding to the SIG's on an annual basis, until such time that they are
self-sufficient. The SIG's have been set up in such a way that any spending is
transparent and can be wholly managed by the SIG committee. I would like us
moving away from the Board having to authorise minor expenditure for SIG's and
have them manage directly. By making available a pool of money to the SIG's the
committees can mange in what ever way they see fit.
I feel the key issue for OSGeo Members is that we are predicting a deficit of
up to $25,000 in 21/22 and are we happy to support that? We budgeted a similar
deficit in 20/21 and it looks like an actual deficit of $6,000.
Please keep the comments and thoughts rolling in!
Greg
On 3/27/2021 4:14:13 AM, Edoardo Neerhut <eneer...@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for fantastic feedback.
Conference
I had similar thoughts on the conference to you John. From memory we agreed to
keep tabs on how conference plans develop over the next month or so and
incorporate that into conference expectations.
Good Mojo
Keen to hear from Alex here. I have been shamefully ignorant to the Good Mojo
fund of late.
Microgrants
I think it's reasonable to increase this given it will be the second financial
year of microgrants. This could be one we asterix and review monthly before we
finalise the budget and allocate a final figure. It'd be great to see how
current funds are used over the next couple of months.
SIGs
If new SIGs emerge, couldn't they be covered with the funds Outreach and
Community support? That's what happened this financial year, and then the SIGs
can get dedicated funding once they're established.
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 22:14, Martin Tomko <tom...@unimelb.edu.au
[mailto:tom...@unimelb.edu.au]> wrote:
I agree here with John,
I think we can be more optimistic than in the catastrophic plans we had mid
last year, although I agree that being cautious is good.
I would also like to see a further expansion of the local outreach and
community support/SIGs and potentially supporting transaltion of local academic
OS innovations to the OS ecosystem ,as we have canvased over a year ago with
John ( but then COVID hit and we could not take off). I do not see space for
this, including any potential support for SIGs (I understand they should be
self-financing in the longer term, but there may be need for some start up
funds for new ones) – working groups are, as we know, a different story (
Communication and Finance and Membership).
Thank you all for the great job in planning ahead, great to see the community
keeping momentum ( and apologies for radio silence for a while)!
Thanks,
Martin
From: Oceania <oceania-boun...@lists.osgeo.org
[mailto:oceania-boun...@lists.osgeo.org]> on behalf of John Bryant
<johnwbry...@gmail.com [mailto:johnwbry...@gmail.com]>
Date: Friday, 26 March 2021 at 3:57 pm
To: Oceania community <oceania@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:oceania@lists.osgeo.org]>
Subject: Re: [OSGeo Oceania] Budget for FY 2021/2022
Thanks for the opportunity to contribute to budget planning. I have a few
comments/questions.
1. Conference
The proposed budget includes an AUD $5000 loss for the conference, which
doesn't align with past experience. Even last year, when plans were derailed
mid-year and we had to create a new plan on the fly, we still turned a small
profit overall [1], despite minimal focus on sponsorship.
FOSS4G 2021 (global) will be fully online, and they're running a relatively
successful sponsorship drive. If we are running another hybrid conference, it
feels like there's potential to find sponsorship. Last year's event was the
largest in-person event we've ever organised, in terms of overall attendance,
and with that experience behind us, I think there's a significant value
proposition for sponsors. Since conference revenue has been the predominant
source of income for OO, I feel this is a sensible place to focus. The
assumption there won't be any significant income feels like a self-fulfilling
prophecy.
2. Good Mojo
A question about Good Mojo expenditure: why reduce it to zero? I guess there's
still ~$8k in the Good Mojo fund since the 2020-2021 budget has 0 under actual.
I suggest this should be used, the people and orgs that contributed to it in
2018 and 2019 would probably like to see their contributions put to use. If
there is an in-person event then maybe reviving the Travel Grant Program would
make sense. Hubs could be enabled to have a local impact using these funds.
3. Microgrants
Last, re: Microgrants, I feel $2k won't be enough. There has been a lot of
interest in the first few weeks of the program. $2k will only fund ~8 grants
over the whole year. I suspect we could increase this to $6k, which would
average 2 grants per month.
Cheers
John
[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174P83K_AnDHrH-HbsJmAdXQfrdbTR9ElVcHtxQ1lrWw/edit#gid=1331367998
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/174P83K_AnDHrH-HbsJmAdXQfrdbTR9ElVcHtxQ1lrWw/edit#gid=1331367998]
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 20:56, Greg Lauer <gregory.la...@gmail.com
[mailto:gregory.la...@gmail.com]> wrote:
Hi All,
The OSGeo Oceania Finance committee met earlier this week, and one of the items
discussed is preparing a budget for FY 21/22. Once we have done this we will
forward it to the OSGeo Oceania Board to approve. We plan to present to the
Board at the April meeting in approx. 4 weeks.
We would welcome input and discussion from OSGeo Oceania members and community
around the budget. You can review 20/21 and the proposed 21/22 budget at
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cbd3Rt5R688qrZ3eTCHxpRZ8HbII358_1UARf3m5qBs/edit?usp=sharing
[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1cbd3Rt5R688qrZ3eTCHxpRZ8HbII358_1UARf3m5qBs/edit?usp=sharing]
Too much? Too little? What should we be spending money on? Potential income
sources?
The key issue is that it is unlikely we will have any significant income for FY
21/22 as the Conference Working group is planning another hybrid virtual
conference. We would hope this would not be the case in FY 22/23.
We are looking forward to your input
Many thanks,
Greg, Alex, Dionne and Ed
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