Hey Folks To correct the record here, the 2020 conference made an $853 loss. This is the full accounting, which I have further cleaned up today: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOL19XSiIavCit7bkCyjVB3qP59dVTYp/view?usp=sharing
I can't remember if I put together the actuals in the document you shared here, John, but regardless, this PDF is the actual actuals! Cheers, On Fri, 26 Mar 2021 at 15:57, John Bryant <johnwbry...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > On Thu, 25 Mar 2021 at 20:56, Greg Lauer <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 >> >> 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 >> _______________________________________________ >> Oceania mailing list >> Oceania@lists.osgeo.org >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania >> > _______________________________________________ > Oceania mailing list > Oceania@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/oceania > -- Alex Leith m: 0419189050
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