<div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks Matt!</div><div><br></div><div>1. I think we can establish a "budget committee". No need to bother the whole governing board with every request. The budget committee could have a rule to escalate to the GB, if a request exceeds some percent of available funds or a fixed dollar amount.</div><div><br></div><div>2. A subset of GB members who volunteer for being on the budget committee.<br></div><div><br></div><div>3. +1 Thank you for putting the request template. The requested information seems reasonable - not too much but enough to make a decision.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Georg<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM Matt Germonprez <<a href="mailto:germonprez@gmail.com">germonprez@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone, <br></div><div><br></div><div>If you aren't aware, the CHAOSS project has been approved as a Linux Foundation Community Bridge project and we currently have a bit over $16,000 in our account for the following: <br></div><div><br></div><div><div><img src="cid:ii_jw7yb90e0" alt="Screen Shot 2019-05-28 at 10.23.53 AM.png" width="558" height="249"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>In order to spend these funds, I think it should require approval from the board (or a subset of board members). So I think there are a few details that should be worked out among us: <br></div><div><br></div><div>1) Should the entire CHAOSS board or a subset of the board approve funding requests? <br></div><div>2) If it is a subset, who will comprise this team? <br></div><div>3) For CHAOSS members to request the use of funds, I have started a Google Doc that could serve as the request template by which people/teams could request the use of funds. This is a work in progress and comments/edits are welcome. <br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fVlhGAqdGRVvT-db2syW6-TmMTEME9MNLkV1D47sfwI/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fVlhGAqdGRVvT-db2syW6-TmMTEME9MNLkV1D47sfwI/edit</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please share your thoughts. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,<br></div><div>Matt<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_649145630561800471m_-1011602069616902204gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Mutual of Omaha Associate Professor</div><div>Information Systems </div><div>College of Information Science & Technology </div><div>University of Nebraska Omaha</div><div>he / him / his</div></div><div><a href="https://goo.gl/E87KdK" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/E87KdK</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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