[Chaoss-Board] Community Bridge Funds

Georg Link linkgeorg at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 11:20:53 UTC 2019


I'm happy to serve on the budget committee.

On Sat, Jun 1, 2019 at 1:14 PM Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> Looks like there is leaning towards having a sub-team to manage funds and
> the process. Others?
>
> If this is the way to go, I'll nominate myself. I think that two others
> would be great (total of three).
>
> Matt
>
>
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 6:43 AM Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Ray,
>>
>> Yes, this completely makes sense. I've started a very simple document to
>> capture this. I'll put this on the board agenda to talk about how we
>> categorize and prioritize items.
>>
>>
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BtelsQom1bKe4DDCIMJtqpSlHE_y-nhe00plTbRKUUA/edit
>>
>> I'm also in favor of a sub-team to approve/deny requests. Do others on
>> the board have thoughts?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:01 AM Raymond Paik <rpaik at gitlab.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Matt,
>>>
>>> I think the template is a great start.
>>>
>>> There are a few things that we probably want to figure out and I'll list
>>> them below (in no particular order and not exhaustive).
>>>
>>>    1. I think it's pretty clear what travel & mentorship expenses are.
>>>    However, what are marketing or meetup expenses? I assume CHAOSS
>>>    swags/merchandise would be under marketing, but if we wanted to spend $'s
>>>    on future CHAOSSCon (e.g. pay for a venue, food/beverage, etc.) do we
>>>    consider that marketing or meetup? I think it'd help to have a list of
>>>    budget items under each category. It doesn't have to be exhaustive, but I
>>>    think some examples would help.
>>>    2. We should have a discussion on a few priority items so that we
>>>    can allocate $'s for those. I think we had lot of discussion on swags, but
>>>    there are probably other areas where we want to invest in?
>>>    3. Once $'s have been allocated for priority items, we can use the
>>>    rest of the budget for community requests (e.g. for travel funds).
>>>
>>> As for who approves budget requests, I'm also OK with having a
>>> sub-team/committee of the GB (comprised of 2-4 volunteers) so the entire
>>> board doesn't need to review every request. As George noted, there could
>>> always be escalations to the entire board when appropriate.
>>>
>>> Hope that made sense :-)
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:51 PM Georg Link <linkgeorg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Matt!
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 2. A subset of GB members who volunteer for being on the budget
>>>> committee.
>>>>
>>>> 3. +1 Thank you for putting the request template. The requested
>>>> information seems reasonable - not too much but enough to make a decision.
>>>>
>>>> Georg
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 6:00 PM Matt Germonprez <germonprez at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> [image: Screen Shot 2019-05-28 at 10.23.53 AM.png]
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Should the entire CHAOSS board or a subset of the board approve
>>>>> funding requests?
>>>>> 2) If it is a subset, who will comprise this team?
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fVlhGAqdGRVvT-db2syW6-TmMTEME9MNLkV1D47sfwI/edit
>>>>>
>>>>> Please share your thoughts.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Matt
>>>>>
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>>>>> University of Nebraska Omaha
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> Information Systems
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> University of Nebraska Omaha
> he / him / his
> https://goo.gl/E87KdK
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