Re: [board-discuss] written report as requirement for budget?

2013-04-04 Thread Florian Effenberger 

Hi,

Joel Madero wrote on 2013-04-04 18:45:

I think this sounds like a good idea for lots of reasons so +1 :-D Sorry
for just providing snippets for you to do a write up based on, I'll try
to do a bit better going forward.


oh, no worries - I am really happy to have received so much great 
feedback, especially given the short notice! So, it's not really 
complaining, I just want to improve the process for 2014, which also 
means asking people much earlier about their activities. :)


Florian

Re: [board-discuss] written report as requirement for budget?

2013-04-04 Thread Joel Madero 
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Florian Effenberger <
flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> given that writing the annual report is a quite tedious task, I am
> thinking about having a new rule, that a fully written, timely report (in
> English) should be a requirement for future budget spendings. Not too much
> text, but a few sentences would be nice.
>
> That would help writing down topics when they occur, plus help those
> writing the annual report to have access to full texts rather than having
> to reinvent the wheel based on some sticky notes and keywords taken over
> the year.
>
> I agree that it is raising the barrier for funds a bit, but then, why not
> share the burden than offloading it to a hand full of people? ;-)
>

I think this sounds like a good idea for lots of reasons so +1 :-D Sorry
for just providing snippets for you to do a write up based on, I'll try to
do a bit better going forward.


Best,
Joel

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*Joel Madero*
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jmadero@gmail.com

[board-discuss] written report as requirement for budget?

2013-04-04 Thread Florian Effenberger 

Hello,

given that writing the annual report is a quite tedious task, I am 
thinking about having a new rule, that a fully written, timely report 
(in English) should be a requirement for future budget spendings. Not 
too much text, but a few sentences would be nice.


That would help writing down topics when they occur, plus help those 
writing the annual report to have access to full texts rather than 
having to reinvent the wheel based on some sticky notes and keywords 
taken over the year.


I agree that it is raising the barrier for funds a bit, but then, why 
not share the burden than offloading it to a hand full of people? ;-)


From experience I can tell this worked out quite well with the German 
FrODeV association, which suffered from similar problems.


Florian